On 08/03/2012, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:03:37 +0000 > From: WALKER RICHARD <[email protected]> > > OK, it is all looking a lot clearer now. Your router can do what you > want, I believe, provided it is on the same network as your 2 PCs. >
The computers and router are connected via ethernet cables, within a house so I assume that is considered a "same" network. > > The only address left to wonder about is the private network address > of the router itself. It has the public address assigned by your ISP > on the WWW side, but its LAN address should be in your network range. > >From your mask we know that you have "only" 256 addresses to play with > so the router should have one of those. That means that the first > three octets of the addresses for PC1, PC2 and the router must be the > same; probably 192.168.0 > Yes, I use such as address to access the router via a web browser. > If that's the case then you should be able to ping the router and the > other PC, and nmap the network. Let's try that again, this time post > your output as the only addresses will be private anyway. Don't forget > to disable the personal firewalls on the two Mandriva boxes. > > We are expecting nmap -sP 192.168.0.* to report 3 hosts; the two PCs > and the router. If we don't see all three, then as suggested above we command terminal output: nmap -sP 192.168.0.* ... Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.1 Host is up (0.00030s latency). MAC Address: ... (broadband internet router) Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.2 Host is up (0.00016s latency). MAC Address: ... (computer) Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.3 Host is up. Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (3 hosts up) scanned in 31.54 seconds > need to look at the routing tables to make sure they are correctly > set. Just enter "route" in a root console on each PC and post that > output too. > route command terminal output (note: personal firewall not disabled at the time of writing): Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth1 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 10 0 0 eth1 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 eth1 > The next step, if we need it, is to double-check the configured > settings in the router. I hope you can access that from your > browser;-) > yes
