networking problems

[Toby Fisher]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Deedra Waters wrote:

> iptables is set up. I have a script that will give me that. the problem I
> appear to be having now is when I use redhat's netconfig it won't accept
> the netmask and ip address of the gateway that I gave it.  It says that
> that isn'ta  a valid ip address when in fact that information is correct.

I presume you're telling your lap top to use the internal address of the
desk top as your gateway?  If the 2 addresses are not in the same subnet,
or the laptop's netmask and broadcast aren't set up correctly, it could
result in this behaviour.

Cheers.

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