[PLUG] Networking problem. (warning, newbie alert)

[Lee Jamieson]

On 9/30/05, Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:40 +0800, Lee Jamieson wrote:
> > Hiya all...
> >
> > I'm using Ubuntu Breezy and am having a whole stack of problems
> > getting my network to run.  I have a Windows box and my gateway,
> > connected to a ISDN.
>
> Is the Windows box set up as a gateway, with Internet Connection Sharing
> enabled? If not, you won't get DHCP, it won't route to the Internet,

Yes it is.  ICS is enabled.

> etc.
>
> What are your goals with this network? Do you want the Linux box to be a
> router for your Internet access? Do you want it to go through the XP box
> for 'net access? What do you want to do with the network?
>

At the moment, untill I have worked out how to get my NT1+2 to connect
via usb it is the gateway.

> Thanks for taking the time to post with some informative details. It's
> much appreciated.
>
> > lee at kubuntu:~$ping www.google.com
> > ping: unknown host www.google.com
>
> That's normal, since /etc/resolv.conf won't have any DNS servers in it.
> Additionally, you have no default route, so even if the system did have
> some DNS servers set up it wouldn't know how to access them.
>
> > lee at kubuntu:~$ dig @192.168.0.1 ubuntu.com
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @192.168.0.1 ubuntu.com
>
> You've asked the DNS server on 192.168.0.1 to resolve ubuntu.com . Since
> you almost certainly don't have a DNS server on 192.168.0.1 that won't
> do any good.
>
> > After that I rebooted my linux box and now I can't access the network
> > anymore.  I have no idea what I am doing now.
>
> The `ifconfig' command configures the interface at runtime. It doesn't
> save settings anywhere, so when you reboot the settings revert to
> normal. You would have to configure your system to use a static IP
> address if you wanted it to persist.
>
> Alas, this is not as simple as `ifconfig --save'. Others have explained
> the details for this configuration.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>
>

Gotta go back to work, I'll post some more tonight.

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Regards,

Lee Jamieson