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lphlee 05-26-2004 09:10 AM

Lan connection crapped with Windows XP as Internet Gateway
 
Can anyone help? I installed Mandrake Linux v10.0 community distribution on my laptop with the profile as follow.

PIIIM 1Ghz
I830 Graphic Chipset
27GB Harddisk
Realtek 8139 Ethernet Interface Card

I can't get an IP from my Windows XP Desktop running Internect Connection Sharing.
Thus, I set the static IP but it just prompt up saying the IP is not in correct format. (192.168.0.7) Hence I do it in console:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

And I do ifconfig and got this:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:7D:17:3E
inet addr: 192.168.0.6 Bcast 192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0::18ff:fe7d:173e/64 Scope: Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1
RX packets: 1831 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns: 0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes: 228402 (233.0kb) TX bytes: 15004 (14.6Kb)
Interrupt: 10 Base address: 0xd000

But stil, I cant get the browser to browse any website. And when I get into the Mandrake control center, in the "Monitor connections", it just say "Not connected". How can I configure it so it can surf the internet properly? or it doesnt support windows xp as an internet gateway?

Peacedog 05-26-2004 12:03 PM

you need to set your gateway, and nameserver.

route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

then edit /etc/resolv.conf, add

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

make sure you don't have a firewall problem. to make the gateway permanent i believe you need to edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifconf-eth0.
hope that helps.
good luck.

lphlee 05-27-2004 08:48 AM

I have tried to set the default gateway and static ip in the etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file
with the following context:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.0.7
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.1
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
NEEDHOSTNAME=no

But the system is unable to load any web page stil. I have successfully ping the IP of the other computer within the same network but not any outside web url.
I tried to ping www.yahoo.com but it returns
ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com

is there something to deal with dns setting or else?

Peacedog 05-27-2004 05:20 PM

check your firewall settings on the xp machine. did you edit your resolv.conf?


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