networking linux with windows XP

asadheesh · 04-25-2008, 10:58 AM

i am having LAN in windows xp plotform, i am also having only one linux system( redhat enterprise linux). my actual problem is in my cabin i got only one LAN port from my lan side and one xp machine(with two ethernet card) and one linux machine(with two ethernet card), but i do not know how to add routes in linux as well as in xp to access LAN facility in both system please anybody to help....?

dkm999 · 04-25-2008, 11:20 AM

On your Linux machine, adding routes is automatically taken care of by the network startup script. You only need to configure the Ethernet interfaces with correct addresses and bootup information, and the script will take care of the rest.

For a more complete discussion of what it takes to connect multiple machines to a single Internet connection, you might want to visit my web pages on the subject here: http://www.digitalelephant.org/compu...net_basic.html