I've been playing around for a few days trying to get a network up between my Debian 1.3/2.0.30 box and a Win95 machine. I've read the Net-3 and IP-Masquerade HOWTOs and have set things up to what I think should be right.
However, I can't even seem to get even a ping across the LAN. Of course, if I boot into Win95 on both machines it works okay so I know the cabling is good. I have the Win95 machine (horeb, aka 192.168.1.2) set up exactly as the IP-Masquerade HOWTO describes, so I don't think things are a problem there. The Linux machine is now set up with diald and ppp to link into my ISP (together.net) which does a typical dynamic IP assignment. This works just fine; it's the ethernet setup that I'm trying to tackle now. The ethernet card is a Realtek (sp?) model PnP NE-2000 clone. Could someone look over my configuration and help this newbie spot something that I've probably overlooked? :-) If so, I'd appreciate it. For my Linux machine, here's what I have in my relevant files: /etc/hostname: golgotha /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 golgotha golgotha.spartacus golgotha.together.net 192.168.1.2 horeb horeb.spartacus /etc/host.conf: order hosts,bind multi on /etc/hosts.deny: ALL: PARANOID ALL: ALL /etc/hosts.allow: ALL: LOCAL ALL: horeb, .spartacus in.smtpd: ALL fingerd: ALL: (finger @%h | mail -s "SECURITY!: Finger from %h" redwards) /etc/resolv.conf: domain together.net search golgotha golgotha.spartacus together.net nameserver 204.97.120.30 nameserver 204.97.120.31 nameserver 198.6.1.1 /etc/init.d/network: #! /bin/sh # Configure the loopback interface: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 # Define some of my defaults: IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 # Set up my ethernet card: ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} route add -net ${NETWORK} route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 A report from "ifconfig eth0" after rebooting Linux and doing 2 commands of "ping 192.168.1.1" from the Win95 machine: eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:26:80:1F:71 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6100 When ping'ed from the Win95 machine as per above, the Win95 machine reports 4 "Request timed out." rather than a normal type of ping response. If anyone has any ideas of what my problem might be (the LAN problem, not my personal ones!:-) and/or any suggestions for optimizing this setup (all I want to do is to enable networking between the Linux and Win95 boxes and allow the Win95 machine to eventually masquerade out to the internet) I'd greatly appreciate it. | Debian GNU/ __ o Regards, | / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ . | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .