On 19 Sep 2005, Jared Hall wrote: > Anthony > > >1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices; > >the laptop appears here as 192.168.0.3, for some reason. > > >From what I have gathered you haven't been able to get your laptop > (wireless) to connect to your desktop (Ethernet). You are connecting > both of these machines to a router which also broadcasts a wireless > signal. > I need you to answer a couple of questions for me so we can isolate > the source of this problem that you have been having. > what is the IP address of the laptop right now? <192.168.0.3?> > what is the IP address of the desktop right now? <192.168.0.2?> > Can you get into the router and assign a static IP addresses to your > Desktop? <If you can this will make your networking problem a whole > lot more simple. this usually requires that you know your mac address. > use the comand <i>ifconfig</i> [eth0] on the desktops terminal to > find that out. It usually looks something like: "HWaddr > 00:A1:CD:3G:F5:Ca">. >
I've added static addresses to be double-safe; things are working now - ssh is up and running so I'm pretty confident that is not a problem. > >2. I removed (instead of just stopping) shorewall and also bastille on > >both machines. > This seems wrong to me. You got rid of firewalls in order to network > your machines? If that worked for you then you just need to change > your firewall rules so that you LAN IP addresses will pass. I love > Bastille, but I don't use its firewall. have you thought of using > <b>iptables</b> instead? It really doesn't take much to learn how to > make yourself a nice software firewall. > > Anthony, please describe, in detail, your network setup. from what I > have gathered it looks like: > > Internet ------->Modem-------->router----------->Desktop > | > [Wireless signal > from router] > | > Laptop > > Jared Yes, this is the arrangment. I've tried reinstalling shorewall, with the appropriate files for a local network, but so far it keeps breaking things. That is, after starting it I can no longer ping to the machine concerned from the other; stopping shorewall is not sufficient to get things going and indeed even removing it doesn't help unless I reboot. Not sure what the problem is here; I've always got on well with shorewall in the past. It may just require more RTFM I note your suggestion about iptables but I admit I've avoided getting directly involved with this in the past! Cowardly, no doubt... Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk for using Linux GNU/Debian || blog, book reviews, electronic Microsoft-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
