On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Arcana wrote:
> I am trying to initialize Internet Sharing on my machine (for a cable
> modem). I have the system running, it's stable, and it is ALMOST all
> right.
>
> Here are my problems:
>
> 1) I have two network cards, eth0 and eth1. They are both PCI, and they
> both autodetect properly. eth0 properly inititializes its 10baseT
> connection, but eth1 switches to 10base2 (which is what I don't want) on
> boot. How can I force it to send and receive from 10baseT?
>
> Output of dmesg:
>
> eth1: 21041 media #0, 10baseT.
> eth1: 21041 media #0, 10baseT.
> eth1: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2.
swap their cables and make sure you can get eth1 running with eth0's ip
and cable
> 2) According to the "IP Masquerading HOWTO" I need the program called
> "ipfwadm". I found and downloaded ipdwadm-2.3.0 from
> http://www.xos.nl/linux/ipfwadm, but when I try to make it, the compiler
> gives me a load of syntax errors.
You dont need ipfwadm, it's been replaced with ipchains which is on the
cd.
> So, what is wrong? Is it that I don't have the options on my kernel
> configured properly? (I know you need IP_masquerading emabled in your
> kernel, among other things) or is it something else? How would I check
> what options are compiled into my kernel?
Download the src.rpm and look at the .config file's
> Thank you.
>
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