after playing around with the 'route' command (thinking i had failed to
set up the box that was connected to the internet properly) i ran
'route' on my second box and realised that it didn't know what to do
with packets for an ip address that wasn't part of the local network
i.e. 192.168.0.0 or 127.0.0.0, i ran 'route add -net 0.0.0.0 gw
192.168.0.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0' and after a couple of minutes
netscape on the second box connected to netscape.com
however
it is very slow, now even with a download (dial-up) occurring to the
same second box i would have thought 10mbit/s ethernet between the two
was sufficient to transfer files one way and to access the net the
other, if i use netscape from the same box doing the download the speed
(though lessened by downloading at the same time) is acceptable.
does anyone know of some setting or reason why net access from the
second box shold be so slow?
what info should i give here?
bascule
bascule wrote:
>
> i am having trouble accessing the internet from a different box to the
> one with my modem,
>
> the scenario is:
> three machines connected via hub 192.168.0.1(2/3)
>
> 192.168.0.1 also has an internal modem and a dynamically assigned ip
> address via the isp
>
> connectivity between the boxes seems to be okay, i am at the moment
> downloading mandrake 7.2 and storing it on a network drive via nfs, but
> when i load netscape on one of the other boxes i get 'unable to locate
> server name' errors,
>
> i have installed pmfirewall (http://pointman.org) -thanks to mark for
> that- and i have (i think) enabled masquerading which my kernel is set
> up for -spent last night doing that!
>
> apart from masquerading (i am trawling through the scripts created by
> pmfirewall) is there something else i should configure?
> what about dns look up on the other boxes, i have entered the same info
> in drakconf>network configuration>dns on all boxes
>
> what about gateways? i have set up 192.168.0.1 box to have no default
> gateway but to allow routing in drakconf>netwok con..>gateways and on
> the other boxes i have set no gateway and no routing
>
> help gratefully received
>
> bascule
