[plug] routing

[John Knight]

Whoah! Hold on fellers!

Before anyone answers anymore, due to the amount of repeated info that will 
come from people reading each other's mail before finding the answer, I have 
to state a few things to clear things up.

The XP box acts as a gateway, and that certainly isn't my choice. My SuSE 
box is merely a peer on the network, it also has 98 and 2K installed on it. 
The connection <start bold!>isn't mine</end bold!>, so I can't change who 
has it, because it's not my property, it's all my brother's. There's no way 
that he would agree to changing things around (seriously, not an option!).

Before anyone answers this mail, I'll get my configuration files that are 
unedited like somone asked for in a previous letter (sorry for not 
remembering names btw). 98 and 2k on my machine are both using his XP box as 
a gateway with absolutely no problems at all, so it certainly can route 
fine, plus when I ping Cantech's DNS with my SuSE installation, I get a 
reply, so it's partly working.

Sorry for sounding so cold all, but I don't want to end up wasting people's 
inboxes with answers that are already there and spawning lots of OT mail. 
Sure you will all understand, I'll have those two config files tomorrow, 
cheers all! :)

>
>Hya,
>
>Could I suggest that you make the SuSe box the dial out machine and
>solve all your routing problems.
>
>But if not then ics sets up a vitual adapter to do all it's routing and
>is a pain in the butt to configure to anything but the default settings.
>
>ICS works more like a dhcp server, asigning ip addresses to machines in
>the 192.186.0.x ip range.
>Set your eth to BOOTPROTO=dhcp in the cfg file or download a windows
>proxy like analogX (I think tucows has this).
>
>But at the end of the day I think use your SuSe box.
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>
>On Tue, 21 May 2002, John Knight wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've got a problem with routing, I can't quite seem to
> > be able to figure it out. My computer is a
> > SuSE 7.3 machine, my brother's using a Windows XP box.
> >
> > My IP Address is 192.168.1.139, his computer's address is
> > 192.168.1.140, we both have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
> > Under Windows 98SE and and 2000, the routing works fine,
> > with the gateway settings put to default gateway, at
> > 192.168.1.140.
> >
> > The ISP, Cantech, has its DNS servers at:
> > 203.26.6.1
> > 203.26.6.6
> >
> > These are the options I have in my networking
> > settings:
> >
> > Network device: eth0
> >
> > Static Address Setup
> >
> > IP Address       Subnet mask
> > 192.168.1.139    255.255.255.0
> >
> > ****Hostname and nameserver*****
> > Host name        Domain name
> > dorris            local
> >
> > (the name server list and the domain search list are
> > both empty).
> >
> > *****Route configuration*******
> >
> > Default gateway
> > 192.168.1.140
> >
> > Routing table (Expert configuration)
> >
> > Destination
> > 203.26.6.1
> >
> > Dummy/Gateway
> > 192.168.1.140
> >
> > Netmask
> > 255.255.255.0
> >
> > Device
> > eth0
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > I can communicate with and ping my brother's machine
> > fine, that has no worries. When I try to use
> > Konqueror, Mozilla or any other browser, it can't
> > find any pages. Are the setting all okay, and  if
> > they are, what other steps must I take in order to
> > browse the net?
> >
> > I notice at startup, Linux gives the error:
> > route: netmask doesn't match the route address.
> > I just tried pinging 203.26.6.1 and got a reply,
> > so it's obviously working there, what else do I need
> > to do?
> >
> > cheers all!
> > anarchist tomato
> >
> > Make lunch, not war.
> >
> >
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>--
>Paul...
>
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>
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