On Saturday 04 October 2003 23:13, Anton wrote: > Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot > of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the > sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the > right place?
My patience with newbie is wearing somewhat thin too. I find myself frequently just marking all messages as read without reading them because so many are OT of just personal conversations. You may also have not gotten a response because your topic may actually be somewhat advanced, and the newbie's can't address it. As for actually answering the technical part of your question, I fear I have no knowledge to help you. Sorry :-( > > Hi, > I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box to be the gateway to my > recently created network with a single windoze ME machine on the private > subnet. I have finally managed to get the ME machine able to reach the > outside world but to be honest I can't really work out how! I tried > pretty much everything and nothing worked... and then it just started > working. My general process was to just keep running drakgw until the > damn thing worked - finally it did. (i tried knetfilter, and everything > else I could get my hands on, but I'm still a newbie...). The problem is > this. EVERY time I want the ME machine to work I have to rerun drakgw. > Not only that, however, but I have to go in and manually reset the > default to the dialup address, as running drakgw always seems to put the > default back to my home net interface (ethernet). What is going on here? > Also simply booting up the ME machine resets the default route to the > address of the local subnet interface! (even though it be on the dialup > after connecting to the net) > Another issue is that the dhcp doesn't seem to be working. I originally > set up a network with XP (which I also have on the mdk9.1 box) and used > a disk created by the xp wizard to get it going. Somehow ME always > manages to set the IP address to 192.168.0.163, and the gateway to > 192.168.0.1 - what it originally had for the xp network. Mdk9.1 seems to > want to have a subnet starting with 192.168.1.1 but ME isn't listening > to the dhcp (which I guess should be running, as it seems as if that is > what it says it is doing) and just sets itself to 192.168.0.163. If I > set the mdk9.1 to statically come out with 192.168.0.1 then, as long as > I rerun the config tool, keeping the IP addresses the same for dns and > others then after I reset the default I can access the net with both > machines. This is an enormous amount of hassle and I'm sure there is > something silly I'm not doing. Any suggestions? > Cheers > Anton > > > -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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