2 NIC's...No Internet
 

I got sick of running RedHat 9 on a machine that I use for masquerading and firewalling so I installed Slackware 9.1 (maybe this should be in the Slackware forum?) Anyway, in this machine I have 2 NIC's. One should be the external one (i.e. the Internet), the other should be an internal one. I have managed to get to the point where I can ping all of the other machines on my internal network (from the masqing machine) and they can ping the masqing machine. Now I just need to get the masqing box to connect to the internet through my cable modem using DHCP and I guess I'm kinda lost. When I had RedHat all I had to do was start GNOME (which I hate) and use redhat-config-network to do it. Anyway, I'm at work right now and don't have access to my home machines so if you have any suggestions that would be great.

Thanks,
Phekno

slackware
 

Hey dude i can help you out i use slackware too... :D

But i have a problem too maybe you could help me 2 its easy...

i have a old slackware distro that way i have a old 3com nic driver.
The driver is full of bugs so im looking for the slackware 9.0 driver :)
otherwise my network hangs... :S

the driver is located in the
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/drivers/net/3c59x.c
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/drivers/net/3c59x.o
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/drivers/net/3c59x.h

if not u can find it with: locate 3c59x.c

would u like to sent that 3 files to my e-mail adress: maikel_psv_rulezzz@hotmail.com

dude i have a nice tutorial for u written by myselve including a firewall its all u need :D:D

man i found the man who could help me and the man wo need my help :D
Let's deal :P

like to hear from you soon!

bye

>Now I just need to get the masqing box to connect to the internet through my cable modem using DHCP

You need;
a working module loaded to drive the second network card
to run dhcp client on the interface
maybe to set your isp's nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf
Once you have got internet access from the machine to work
enable NAT for the rest of the machines.

you probably want the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1or /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 set to use
dhcp on the second network card.