Hi there,
I have previously set up a network at home, one acts as a gateway and
it is
connected to my isp via ppp, and the other one accesses internet
through
the gateway.
I have since rearranged my room and decided to rebuild one of my slower
computers and make it the gateway computer.
I installed potato release 2 onto it.
after pppconfig, I installed kernel 2.4.2 onto the computer.
YOu can assume that my configuration for pppconfig is correct, since
I did a straight copy from my working gateway. plog showed that it
did shake hand with the isp's server at least and it stayed alive.
My problem is that it could not ping my isp neither could it ping
the outside network.
Do I need to configure /etc/network/interfaces?
I don't think I needed to though.
Note, my current working gateway is not using the
/etc/networking/interface
feature, but using the old init script in /etc/init.d
with lots of "ifconfig" and "route add"
here's what I got when ppp is not on: (192.168.1.3 is the new gateway box that
I was trying to build).
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
here's what I got when ppp is on:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
129.78.56.16 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
this is what I want to get when ppp is on: (129.78.56.17 is given by my ISP,
but this is not the DNS, 192.168.1.1 is the old gateway that I have, and it is
running).
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
129.78.56.17 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.1.0 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 129.78.56.17 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
this is what my /etc/network/interfaces looks like:
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface
iface lo inet loopback
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
installation# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
please give me some pointers here.
thanks in advance.
Bill
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Bill Shui Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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