FC6 to win xp w/ crossover cable internet share

dla-nor · 01-02-2007, 04:40 PM

It seems that using both linux and windows isn't very popular, but here goes ;-)

Setup:
I have a Fedora Core 6 computer hooked up to my Win XP laptop with a crossover cable. The Win XP laptop has a wireless internet connection to a router and has a 192.168.x.xxx IP address through that connection. For the wired connection I gave them both static IPs: 192.169.0.1 and 192.169.0.2 The two computers ping each other fine and the linux computer sees the Windows computer in the network. I've shared the wireless connection in win xp.

The problem is the Linux computer isn't getting to the internet. This setup is preferable to plugging them both into the router because of the way the machines are distributed physically.
Thanks!

bitva · 01-02-2007, 05:22 PM

Yeah, if you extra network ports available on the router just connect both computers to the router. Or spend $20 and get a switch.

The way you're doing it, you're gonna need to setup the Windows box with ICS enabled and acting as a gateway for the Linux box/wired NIC.

jschiwal · 01-02-2007, 06:12 PM

You need to use the XP's IP address as the default gateway address, and not the address of the router.
Please post the output of /sbin/route.

Also make sure that the file /etc/resolve.conf contains your ISP's nameserver (DNS) addresses.

The windows <-> linux crossover IP addresses may need to be on a different subnet from the router so Windows can route traffic out the correct interface. You also need to make sure you don't have traffic blocked by a firewall in either machine.

dla-nor · 01-02-2007, 09:20 PM

The XP computer's IP is set as the default gateway (192.169.0.1). I turned off the windows firewall for the NIC to the linux machine.

/sbin/route outputs the following:

Code:

Destination   Gateway     Genmask        Flags  Metric  Ref  Use  Iface
192.169.0.0   *            255.255.255.0  U      0       0     0   eth0
default       192.169.0.1  0.0.0.0        UG     0       0     0   eth0

/etc/resolve.conf contains the following:
search localdomain

jschiwal · 01-02-2007, 09:56 PM

You X'ed out the third octet of your routers IP address. If it is also .0. then the router and the Linux box are on the same subnet. Unless you have a host route, which I don't know how to set up in WindowsXP, this may cause a problem. A 192.168.0.XXX address has two interfaces assigned to it on the Windows box.

Also, you need your IPSs dns addresses listed in /etc/resolv.conf. This is to resolve domain names to IP addresses.

dla-nor · 01-03-2007, 10:15 PM

Thanks for the help so far.
Ok, now I added the openDNS IPs to resolv.conf so it now reads:
search localdomain
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

Also the IP address of the XP machine through the wireless connection is 192.168.1.xxx while on the wired NIC is 192.169.0.1

Now, in Firefox, instead of saying "page not found" it goes through the stages of "looking up xxx" and "connecting to xxx" but then stalls indefinitely on "waiting for xxx."