On Sat, 8 May 1999, MR wrote: > I have two network cards (1 Intel etherexpress 16, 1 NE2000) in a debian > system. Both are detected on boot up and both are ifconfig'd. This system > will be used to connect my little LAN through IP masq to the Internet. For > various reasons, I am only able to have 1 IP, so that is why I am messing > around with all this. My problem is that I can not ping another machine on > my internal LAN from the linux box. The internal LAN is numbered > 192.168.1.x (with the linux box being .1 and the one I am trying to ping > .3) eth0 is my "external" card and eth1 is the internal one. If I set up a > route for the internal lan (route add -net 192.168.1.0 eth1) I can ping > 192.168.1.1 (itself), but get a "ping: sendto: Operation not permitted" > when trying to ping another machine on the internal lan. Any ideas? I have > tried pinging the linux box from the other machine (which runs Win98). I > get both activity lights going like they should on the hub and on a card > from each computer, so the connection is there. Thanks in advance.
Have you also set up the netmask and broadcast address for eth1? In your case, try netmask=255.255.255.0 and broadcast=192.168.1.255. Remco -- rd1936: 1:55pm up 6 days, 21:51, 5 users, load average: 1.10, 1.38, 1.77