networking PC and laptop

[Alex Snow]

I think I know what's the problem.  If your connecting two machines
directly you need to use a crossover ethernet cable.  are you using one?

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >Lorenzo
> > >
> > >E Pluribus Unix
> > >
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