Hi,

I currently have a wireless network running from my eth1, that is all fine.
I would like to connect to the internet through eth0, I've set this up in rc.modules, rc.inet1.conf, and rc.inet2. a dhcp address is assigned upon boot, as I see:

dhcpcd: your ip address: my.ip.goes.here

and the mac address of the card etc is also detected, when i run an ifconfig, under eth0... I also see the mac address, the correct ip address given by my isp i assume, the bcast and the mask (not sure about the last 2), then some packet details:

RX PACKETS: 39632 with no errors, none dropped and no overruns. this is also the same for TX packets, however only 43 packets were sent.

all this seems fine to me, i've stayed away from netconfig as it is already configured to use a dhcp server, and running the config seems to only change my eth1 (wireless) settings, and wipe the settings for the eth0...

however while all may seem fine to me, i cannot ping, connect to, or tracert anything, which is to me a sure indication that i'm offline.

any ideas as to what i've done wrong, any replies appreciated and thanks for your time

check your routes.

could you maybe point me in the right direction as to how that would be done, I've picked it up this far from what i've learnt from reading other problems etc,

tia, Paul

the command is

/sbin/route -n

thanks, I'm guessing theres something definitely wrong, no mention of eth0 at all there.

192.168.2.0 / 0.0.0.0 / 255.255.255.0 / U / 0 / 0 / 0 / eth1
127.0.0.0 / 0.0.0.0 / 255.0.0.0 / U / 0 / 0 / 0 / lo
0.0.0.0 / 192.168.2.1 / 0.0.0.0 / UG / 0 / 0 / 0 / eth1

fields are :

destination, gateway, genmask, flags, metric, ref, use, iface respectively...

any help or advice for using eth0 as my internet device is really appreciated

# lspci

Your 2 NICs should be shown. If only one, that could only be your eth1 for sure and your supposed eth0 NIC is not working.

or:

# ifconfig -a

eth0, eth1 and lo should all be there.

If eth0 is absent again:

# ifconfig eth0 up

Then # ifconfig -a again.

If things goes right now, put your IP (ifconfig) for eth0 and add your ISP's gateway.

# route add default gw your.isp.assigned.gateway

route -n should show:

your.isp.assigned.gateway 0.0.0.0
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0 your.isp.assigned.gateway

I haven't noticed that your using Slackware. Edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.inte1.conf and put eth0's IP and your ISP's gateway there. It should be permanent then. It seems that Slackware can't remember sometimes the other NIC's IP configured through ifconfig. On my case it's eth1 that can't be remembered during everyboot/reboot.

I just figured it out after searching their installation page.

You should be able now to ping internet sites like www.linuxquestions.org.

Thanks to all that replied in this thread, gani, thanks a lot, your help was great! i got it working after a few attempts, i was close before.

anyway, got the eth0 working as the net interface, now to setup eth1 for network traffic and internet connection sharing, but as thats a topic for wireless networking, off I go...

thanks again

Wired and wireless are just different access medium, operations will be the same. May be this thread could help you setup internet sharing with other workstations.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2

But this is not yet a secured setup. You will still need to refer to other tutorials but this will work as it worked for me before. I can't help you secure this iptables script since I just used iptables for less than a month upon learning that OpenBSD's PF is much easier to learn and implement.

Go to netfilter's website for howtos.