I just installed RH9, with good success (barring the incident of water and the hard drive!) I would like to set it up to be a file serv/web serv/router(internet sharing). But for now I'd just like to get the router up and going.

I have installed 2 NICs (eth0,eth1), and configured PPPoE(dynamicIP) over eth0 successfully. I have my WinXP machine connected to eth1. I have set eth1 to an IP of 192.168.0.2 and can ping it from XP. I think I have setup XP to be 192.168.0.3, but cannot ping it.

So far much of the resources on the net are a bit over my head, so is there a simple way to accomplish this? I found one resource that said I can just use routing, but didn't say how....

Thanks in advance.

The IP for your windowsXP system should be 192.168.0.2


Internet Sharing
This thread contains information on how to configure IP forwarding and Masquerading. Refer to my posts.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...712#post381712


File Server
You will need to configure Samba.
Some GUI tools like SWAT and WebMin are available.

Samba documentation and HowTOs
http://www.samba.org/

The Unofficial Samba HOWTO
http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/


Web Server
You will need to configure Apache.
Some GUI tools like WebMin are available.

Apache 1.3
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

Apache 2.0
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/

Unless you don't want to have a domain, you need to learn bind, unless your hosting a webpage between the two computers but..... There's also a package on RH9 for ftp, which isn't too hard to configure, especially if you aren't going to have multiple users.

I've got the net sharing working very well!
Thanks to http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquer...WTO/index.html

I still don't understand completely how, but it works.

for some reason I can't ping localhost.localdomain though.

If you want to ping localhost.localdomain from your windowsXP system, you will have to setup a local DNS.