networking problems

[Gregory Nowak]

Do you have 2 network cards in the desktop (one for the cable modem, the other for your lan)? If so, then did you get ip masquirading configured on your desktop?
Greg


On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 05:31:30PM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote:
> I'm trying to  network my laptop and desktop so that my life will be much
> easier with some things.
> 
> The problem I'm having is this.I'm using dhcp so that the desktop can pull
> an ip adress from the cable modem. I installed dhcpd, and am trying to
> configure it, but 1 don't fully understand the manpages, and 2 I don't
> fully understand the config file. I took a lot of guesses at it, but my
> laptop still can't connect to the internet.
> 
> The laptop is fine when it's connected to the modem by itself, so my guess
> is that the problem is with my desktop.
> 
> If someone can please help me with this I would appreciate it.
> 
> 
> 
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