networking PC and laptop

[Lorenzo Prince]

HELP!!!!!

I've looked everywhere I can think of and I can't even get my PC and
laptop to talk to each other.  I configured my PC's eth1 with the address
192.168.0.1 and the laptop's eth0 to use the address 192.168.0.2.  I set
the laptop to use 192.168.0.1 as the gateway.  I set up masquerading on
the PC.  But I can't even ping the PC from the laptop or the laptop from
the pc, and they are directly connected with a standard network cable.
What am I missing here?  Did I buy the wrong cable or something?

Lorenzo

E Pluribus Unix

Doug staggered into view and mumbled:

> Lorenzo,
>
>  > I am running Slackware 9.0 on both computers ...
>
> What you probably want is to use the 192.168.0.x
> IP address scheme for the PC and laptop. These
> addresses are reserved for 'internal' ie not real
> IP addresses. Then you will set up IP masquerading
> on the PC, which will connect to the net. There
> are lots of docs on how to set up masquerading.
> For disk sharing, yes you probably want to use
> nfs although there are many alternatives these
> days. As with masquerading, there are lots of
> docs on how to set up NFS. In the slackware
> install you'll see some NFS tools, one being
> the NFS daemons, you want those on the server
> (PC). It may take a while to get all of this
> working (masq and nfs) but it will work very
> reliably once you are done. If you wanted to
> add a windows box to the same internal lan
> you could run samba on the server (PC) for
> disk sharing, and for internet the PC just
> acts like a gateway (nothing special to do
> other than configure ethernet).
>
> I suggest that you set up your PC as the IP
> 192.168.0.1, it will be the gateway. Then
> set up the laptop as 192.168.0.2 and set
> the gateway to 192.168.0.1. Read the docs
> on IP maquerading for how to configure that.
> Try a google search, there are lots of docs.
> Some show very simple setups including
> exactly what you want to do (just connect
> two PCs for sharing interney connection).
>
>    -- Doug
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