Hi,
I have two seperate problems, but both are to do with setting up
networking.
1.
My PC(s) at home:
I have two connected with 3C509 ethernet cards, and have given them reserved
IP addresses. They talk to each other perfectly. No problems.
In one, I have a modem. I have set it up so that it dials in to my ISP. I
type pon, it dials, and later ifconfig comes up with the ppp0 interface set
to the dynamically allocated address.
But, something aint quite right. I can't ping the DNS servers or anything.
I can only ping the address that comes up as the P-t-P bit of the ppp0
entry in ifcongifg. i.e. i can't ping the bit that's listed as IP address.
Or the DNS servers or anything. They're not wrong numbers as they're
pingable under (ugh!) win95 when ppp'ed with that...
I've read the NAG, net-2 howto, ppp howto, but still I can't get it to work
right. Is it a routing problem? I can't find examples of a setup with
ethernet card on a LAN and a modem for PPP. I'm most confused and don't
know how to continue.
route -n comes up with just one ppp0 bit and three eth0 bits, if thats at
all relevant.
I will happily supply extra info if it's needed!
2.
My PC at work.
This is even more confusing for me. Our support people won't help as they
only support '95 machines on the network, and I can't advocate using Linux
until I can show people it'll work nicely sitting on the network...
We have some sort of ethernet network thing behind a firewall - my machine
here also has a 3C509 card which is recognised just fine at boot up.
Allegedly, our IP addresses our allocated at boot time, but I know that
since i started checking this (the last few weeks), I'm always given the
same IP address (or so reports winipcfg - yes, we're on good 'ole '95).
winipcfg also reports a subnet mask of 255.255.240.0, which has me stumped,
and addresses for the default gateway and DNS.
It also reports addresses of:
DHCP server
Primary WINS server
Secondary WINS server.
Node type is reported as 'Hybrid', IP routing and WINS proxy are not
enabled, but NetBIOS resolution uses DNS is enabled.
None of that means a thing to me tho' so I dunno if it's relevant or not.
Anyway, i set up my /etc/inet.d/network stuff with the IP address i'm always
given and the gateway and network mask as listed by winipcfg.
route -n shows nothing, and ifconfig shows my eth0 as having address
0.0.0.0.....
There's loads of messages in my xconsole box to, like ping from
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (the x's are numbers...) and connection attempt from
yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy and 'host not reachable' and other weird things.
Can i get this box to sit happily on the network? Or not? If so how? I am
quite confused by routing and network stuff in general.
Any help for either of the two probs above appreciated, can supply any extra
information.
Ta in advance,
Martin
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