Arend Meetsma wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, George Sherwood wrote:
>
> > Hello all, this newbie is having trouble getting the two crossover machines
> > to work right - like they can in Windows. If I boot puter 1 into XP, puter 2
> > can access the 'net through puter 1, and it doesn't matter if puter 2 boots
> > win98, OS/2 or Redhat 7.1. They all can get through. If puter 1 boots into
> > RedHat, however, none of them except puter 1 itself can get through, though
> > they can all ping each other. Do I need to build a second gateway/bridge for
> > the two computers and have that gateway access the LinkSys gateway? More
> > fundemental, both NICs in puter 1, ACPI and Display all share IRQ 11. Might
> > this be a problem? Maybe, since eth0 will not init if set to DHCP, and there
> > is always an "Unable to find IP address: FAILED" at boot for that one, but
> > eth1 seems ok with DHCP. Any hints welcome, as this has been a challenge for
> > weeks. Would it help if I post the ifconfig results and the routing table,
> > or is there much to do before any of that matters? :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > George
>
> Hi George,
>
> Is this what it looks like?
>
> Net - gateway - computer1 - computer2
>
> If you have a linksys gateway, why not just plug all machines into that,
> and be done with it? Is it a BEFSR41?
>
> If you have just a gateway without the router/switch, just pick up a
> cheap hub, and do this:
>
> / computer1
> Net - gateway - hub
> \ computer2
>
> Or am I missing something fundamental in what you are trying to do?
>
> Arend
>
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