Yes, sorry i'm confusing you all the time because I keep changing configurations and trying different kind of methods. This is what I'm planning to do:

I'm trying to use the eth0 to access the Internet and eth1 to connect with winXP. I just temporarily tried the eth0 to connect winXP to see if the problem was the eth1 card and that's why I tried ip 192.168.1.1 with it. It worked fine so I changed back to the earlier configuration, and that is eth0 to connect the Internet. Now I'm only trying to configure my eth1 card to connect winXP.

This is what I have now:

Linux
eth0: 195.148.188.41 -> Internet (Working)
eth1: 192.168.1.1 -> WinXP (Not Working)

WinXP
192.168.1.2 -> Linux eth1 (Not Working)

This is what I tried:

Linux
eth1: 195.148.188.41 -> Internet (Not Working)
eth0: 192.168.1.1 -> WinXP (Working)

WinXP
192.168.1.2 -> Linux eth0 (Working)

And thank you for helping me so much, it seems I not able to figure this out by myself

There can only be two answers the first one is that in both cases eth1 failed to work therefore u can presume that eth1 NIC is not working or like I said on the other posts make sure that the eth1 is up.

I assume that eth0 is network card going to your ISP to connect to the internet which has a seperate cable to do this. the other cable is to connect to the XP box (crossover cable).

When u ping eth1 does it come with a response? If the answer is yes then your NIC is OK Ping the NIC on the XP box if it replies then it´s also OK. In this case check your cable if you have tested your cable and sure that it´s working then disable FW on linux and XP


Good Luck
chow

> There can only be two answers the first one is that in both
> cases eth1 failed to work therefore u can presume that eth1
> NIC is not working or like I said on the other posts make sure
> that the eth1 is up.

Is there a way to check if eth1 is up? I've run the cmd "ifconfig eth1 up", did I do it right?

> I assume that eth0 is network card going to your ISP to
> connect to the internet which has a seperate cable to do this.
> the other cable is to connect to the XP box (crossover cable).

Yes, that's right.

> When u ping eth1 does it come with a response? If the answer
> is yes then your NIC is OK Ping the NIC on the XP box if it
> replies then it´s also OK. In this case check your cable if you
> have tested your cable and sure that it´s working then disable
> FW on linux and XP

Yes, I ping eth1 and it responses, but when I try to ping the NIC on the XP it will not respond. Crossover cable is 100% OK because I've tested it before and it is brand new. Firewall is disabled on XP, there's no firewall on linux.

I red something about routing and ipchains, could there be something wrong with these?

type ifconfig and send me the output of this file.

When I siad ping the XP box I ment locally and not from the linux box.

chow

The ifconfig output is on the previous page and yes my local XP ping also works fine.

I finally made it work!! The problem seemed to be my ISA slot or a wrong irq. I changed the NIC to a differend ISA slot and also changed the NICs irq to 3 and now everything works fine. Of course this would have been easier if I had known what kind of NIC I have and what irq it supports

The funny thing was that I thought my NIC was working fine because it responded to a ping command (locally) but I guess this doesn't mean a thing.

But anyway, thx for help ppl.