No, I saw this kind of thing when I was setting up my Linux box to serve as a masquerading gateway for my LAN (which had a Win98 machine on it) also. The IP address that windows is getting below is a default address that Windows sets when it can't get an address via DHCP.
I had a lot of trouble getting networking to work properly. Unfortunately, I cannot remember what I did to correct the problem. However, it may have something to do with the fact that I'm not using the rc.firewall scripts that were generated by draknet (which surpisingly didn't seem too secure to me for *any* internet access). FYI, you can often get more info on Win98 DHCP configuration by running winipcfg. J. Craig Woods wrote: >Jason Pearce wrote: > >>Hi Brian, >>thanks for the responce, >>the ipconfig output reads >>ip 169.254.117.142 >>subnet mask: 255.255.0.0 >>and pinging results in host unreachable >>i have also tried to set an ip address and gateway manually on the win98 >>machine to no avail , >>the dhcpd.conf for machine #1 gives a subnet of 255.255.255.0 and ip's of >>192.168.0.16-253. >>machine #3 has a ip 192.168.0.16 >>thanks again brian >>where do you think the problem lies? >>regs jason >> > >Therein is the trouble. Are you saying that machine 2 (windows box) has >a public ip address? From your original post, I concluded that the linux >box is the router. Is your linux box the gateway server, and is it >running NAT for the other machines? If your linux box is the machine >connected to the internet, serving as a router/gateway, then your other >boxes (private machines) should be on the same subnet i.e. >192.168.0.0/24 (that would be netmask 255.255.255.0). > >Why can't you set up the interface device (eth0) on the windows box to >have an ip in the 192.168.0.0/24 netblock range? This is what you must >do for it to work with the gateway/router box... > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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