Hello!

I've been searching the forums for the last three days without any resoults. Ok, the thing im trying to do should be a no-brainer, but i can't seem to find the problem. I wanna do the following:
internet <----- WinXP Pro box <-----> Slack10.0 box

Ok. I enable ICS on NIC thats connected to the internet.
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 4:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : RCA USB Cable Modem
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-10-95-A5-16-40
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 194.249.xxx.xxx
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.xxx
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 194.249.xxx.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 193.2.1.66
193.2.1.72

Then on my second NIC i set the following:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0A-5E-22-63-32
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

And as for the final stage of this setup, i go to Slack box and edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
IPADDR[0]="192.168.0.2"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

# Default gateway IP address:
GATEWAY="192.168.0.1"

and also /etc/resolv.conf where i set both dns servers:
193.2.1.66
193.2.1.72

Oh yea just on more thing: ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:701:0F
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:36347 (35.4 Kb) TX bytes:34219 (33.4 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe600


I can ping linux box from XP and vice-versa. I cannot ping google.com which means im not connected to internet.
I can also SSH in my Slack box from XP.

I also read that i should do it the other way around ( configuring linux to act as a router, but i cant since my school is M$ oriented and i need it + im fairly new to linux and need to adjust first )


Any suggestions ?


Thank you!

your Linux box will need then ip address of the XP box as its gateway
this is in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

and, the linux box will need the dns address of your isp
which will go in /etc/resolv.conf

You seem to have everything you need on the Linux box, and you can connect to the XP box fine, it has to be either a problem with the gateway configuration (which looks fine to me), or with the routing on the XP box... but I don't know anything about Internet Connection Sharing on XP... I'm not sure that is within the scope of this forum, unless we have some XP wizards lurking about.

I am in agreement with what you have read, Linux makes a far better router than a Windows box.

@ guzzi

As you probably read from my first post both of those files have already been edited (i think correctly).
Im wondering tho if i need to change anything else, that might not have been metioned in other posts that i've read so far.
I still can't find the missing puzzle to my solution, will have to search harder.

:edit:
Could my problem be in USB connected cable modem ? ( because the pc thats connected to internet is running XP and it has modem connected through USB and a NIC with witch i connect to Linux box )


Thanks for fast replys.