Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-26 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 09:54, Derek Jennings wrote: > Yes shorewall will by default block pings from both the Internet and > the local network. It will also block ALL traffic from the local > network to the firewall. So if you want to run as a firewall AND as a > server you must open up traffic to the local netw

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:32, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Today at 00:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: > > > Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each > > > other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to pin

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-25 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 00:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: > > Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each > > other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either > > host from the server I  get this error message: > >  

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-25 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each > other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either > host from the server I  get this error message: > ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitte

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-25 Thread Russell W. Behne
Wednesday at 10:49, Anne Wilson wrote: > Russell, if you don't mind me saying so, you are a sucker for punishment ;-) > Get your switch. It's a doddle after that. You won't believe how easy it is > after what you were trying to do. Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can pin

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 22:46, Russell W. Behne wrote: > extra ports for future expansion. I figure that someday I'll throw > together on old system, as an X-term put it in my woodshop, and run a > cable from there to the switch, that way I'll be able to log in from the > woodshop office witho

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 21:25, bascule wrote: > re: crossover cables Russell, while in general it's true you will need > crossover for machine to machine, there are nics that do autodetection of the > cable and adjust accordingly, as far as I'm aware that's hardware based, if > you happened to have such a nic

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 08:43, Russell W. Behne wrote: > > The switch should solve this too, shouldn't it? I hope so. With the > switch they'll be put back on the same subnet. I'll probably be back > with other problems after the switch is installed --- and hopefully > running right. > Russell, if

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 08:57, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > You're getting there:) Apparently you have crossover cabling otherwise > you wouldn't be able to ping directly. Actually, I discovered that's not what's happening. I was wondering why I was getting ping responses, but nothing else works. I did a telnet jackie

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 02:17, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Oct 20 at 01:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > For one: I've never used 2 or more networkcards for the same net on > > the same PC before (I use a hubcheap&efficient) but I don't think > > it poses a problem. They should be connected with a "

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Oct 19 at 23:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > A simple 4-5 port switch (switch is better than hub) should run you > $20-$30 US. What's the actual difference between a hub and switch? As you can probably guess, I'll only want the most bare-bones one that connects the two hosts directly to my server, and l

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 30 October 2004 11:00 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Thanks for the info on the crossover cable/hub, Greg. One or two last > questions, about how much do hubs run? What's the cheapest I can expect? A simple 4-5 port switch (switch is better than hub) should run you $20-$30 US. One wit

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 30 October 2004 09:17 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Oct 20 at 01:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > For one: I've never used 2 or more networkcards for the same net on > > the same PC before (I use a hubcheap&efficient) but I don't think > > it poses a problem. They should be connected wit

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Oct 20 at 01:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > For one: I've never used 2 or more networkcards for the same net on > the same PC before (I use a hubcheap&efficient) but I don't think > it poses a problem. They should be connected with a "crossover cable" > (comparable to a "nul modem" serial cable) oth

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:09, Russell W. Behne wrote: > So both cards are now reecognised by the kernel.  But pings to > 192.168.0.11 and 192.168.0.12 aren't answered; doing a traceroute to > 192.168.0.11 shows that the pings are going out the cable modem on eth0 > to my ISP's private network in

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Oct 20 at 00:20, Derek Jennings wrote: > If you look at the ifconfig display for eth1 and eth2 you will notice that you > have not assigned them an IP address. > You need to create files called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and > ifcfg-eth2 containing for example > DEVICE=eth1 > BOOT

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Ok. I'm at the point where I have the 2 extra network cards installed. > eth0 goes to my cable modem, and is the default route. eth1 and eth2 are > for the 2 kids computers. When I do ifconfig I get this: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 31 October 2004 00:09, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Ok. I'm at the point where I have the 2 extra network cards installed. > eth0 goes to my cable modem, and is the default route. eth1 and eth2 are > for the 2 kids computers. When I do ifconfig I get this: > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Ok. I'm at the point where I have the 2 extra network cards installed. eth0 goes to my cable modem, and is the default route. eth1 and eth2 are for the 2 kids computers. When I do ifconfig I get this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:C0:C0:40 inet addr:67.21.58.221 Bca

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: > I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) > Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard > drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: > > 1. Both computers to be

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Lanman
Russell W. Behne wrote: I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: 1. Both computers to be able to dual boot using lilo, Linux as

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 03:50, Russell W. Behne wrote: > I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) > Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard > drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: > > 1. Both compu

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 09:32, Russell W. Behne wrote: > H Actually, it would be nice if y'all do drop in and do it all > for me, but I'd just as soon everyone just guide me and I'll do all the > configuring myself, so that I get familiar with what's what. That way, > once it's done, sho

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 08:54, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > the address 127.0.0.1 is reserved as "local host" and you'll be having > some trouble trying t get that range of numbers to work. On a private > lan you should use ranges like 192.168.0.xxx or 192.168.1.xxx where > xxx goes up to 254. That right. I didn't

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 04:50, Russell W. Behne wrote: > I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) > Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard > drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: > > 1. Both com

[newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-18 Thread Russell W. Behne
I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: 1. Both computers to be able to dual boot using lilo, Linux as defa