networking problems

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Dedra:

I haven't read enough of this to know if you've gotten further,
but in case the following hasn't been covered:

Are you using two separate ethernet cards on your desktop? That's
the optimal setup. One nic to connect directly to your outside
router/modem, and the second to connect to an internal hub/switch
that you plug your other devices into. Of course, if you only
have the laptop, you plug directly into this card and can
dispense with the hub/switch for the time being.

The rest gets a bit specific to the distro you have. In general,
you want to accept dhcp connections on the second card, which is
likely, and probably should be, eth1. You then also want to
enable ip masquerading/forwarding.

There's an old way and a new way of doing this. The old way is
for 2.2 kernels and below. The new way, iptables, is for 2.4
kernels.

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, 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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