Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,11.Aug.08, 10:37:58, Shachar Or wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2008 10:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: > > > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the > > > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the > > > >

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 11 August 2008 10:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: > > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the > > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the > > > correct value of course). > > > > Well, that got the rou

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the correct > > value of course). > > > > Well, that got the router to recognize the hostname, but not the > domainname.

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: > > [...] > >> My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both >> machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife >> connects to the same router via wireless from he

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: [...] > My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both > machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife > connects to the same router via wireless from her laptop (running XP) it > shows up on the router pag

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread tyler
tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When apache is configured to listen to all addresses, I can browse > webpages on the desktop from the laptop by entering the IP address > (192.168.2.11), but not the name (etch.mynetwork). On the desktop I can > ssh to the desktop (ie., ssh to itself) with ssh e

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread tyler
"Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> >> When apache is configured to listen to all addresses, I can browse >> webpages on the desktop from the laptop by entering the IP address >> (192.168.2.11), but not the name (etch.mynetwork). On the desktop I > can

RE: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> -Original Message- > Subject: home network problem - router is smarter than me > > Hi, > > What follows is a very naive question regarding home networking. Any > tips, even a pointer the most appropriate documentation, would be very > helpful. > > I'd like to setup my desktop as a back

Re: home network behind a firewall/router

2007-11-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 07:46:20PM +0100, P?l Cs?nyi wrote: > > I have a Cable Modem connection to my ISP. > > my ISP >| > Cable Modem connection to my ISP >| > PC box-1 firewall/gateway > = > |

Re: home network behind a firewall/router

2007-11-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Pál Csányi wrote: Hello! I have a Cable Modem connection to my ISP. my ISP | Cable Modem connection to my ISP | PC box-1 firewall/gateway = | | LAN DMZ |

Re: Home network problem

2005-06-12 Thread Phil
At 03:40 PM 6/12/2005, Craig Russell wrote: Phil wrote: The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and linux clients does not get the internet in KDE. I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX & TX packet flow when I issue a ifconfig command on eth0 (th

Re: Home network problem

2005-06-12 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
Phil wrote: The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and linux clients does not get the internet in KDE. I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX & TX packet flow when I issue a ifconfig command on eth0 (the only NIC) I can ping all local machines, th

Re: Home network problem

2005-06-12 Thread Craig Russell
Phil wrote: The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and linux clients does not get the internet in KDE. I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX & TX packet flow when I issue a ifconfig command on eth0 (the only NIC) I can ping all local machines,

Re: Home Network

2004-12-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Vin Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 17 06:52 -0600]: > What is a good setup for two machines, Desktop P3 650 256MB RAM + > Laptop 2.6MHz 512 RAM ? > > The laptop is almost just to my liking, sid running a custom compiled > 2.6.9. I have an internal winmodem in the laptop, which works. All I

Re: Home Network

2004-12-17 Thread Vin Jacob
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:46:50AM +0300, Vin Jacob wrote: > What is a good setup for two machines, Desktop P3 650 256MB RAM + > Laptop 2.6MHz 512 RAM ? > > The laptop is almost just to my liking, sid running a custom compiled > 2.6.9. I have an internal winmodem in the laptop, which works. All I

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-16 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:19:02PM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Mmmm, what if I have two machines that are on the same LAN segment, having a conversation of interest, but I want to run my sniffer from, say, a Linux server on the

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:19:02PM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Mmmm, what if I have two machines that are on the same LAN segment, > having a conversation of interest, but I want to run my sniffer from, > say, a Linux server on the same segment?

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:43:40AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > >>I take minor issue with this blanket statement: a switch doesn't really >>gain you anything unless you're getting enough traffic for collisions, >>and takes

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:43:40AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I take minor issue with this blanket statement: a switch doesn't really > gain you anything unless you're getting enough traffic for collisions, > and takes away your ability to monitor

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Paul Johnson wrote: > > > [1] Switch would be better. > I take minor issue with this blanket statement: a switch doesn't really gain you anything unless you're getting enough traffic for collisions, and takes away your ability to monitor everything (tcpdump, ethereal) that's going on from one p

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 11:12:00PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > This is a DSL _router_, not a bridge - it's just another internal network, > so the ISP has nothing to do with it. Assuming of course the router is doing > NAT, like mine does. Oh? Did

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-07 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 01:47:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:45:18PM +0200, Kosta Porotchkin wrote: > >eth0: 10.0.0.150/24 connected to ADSL modem/router (10.0.0.138) > > Is eth0 really 10.0.0.150? If so, your

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:45:18PM +0200, Kosta Porotchkin wrote: > First Windows workstation: 192.168.1.2/16, gw 192.168.1.1 > Second Windows workstation 192.168.2.2/16, gw 192.168.2.1 > Linux server/NAT firewall/gateway running Debian Woody 3.0: >

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:45:18PM +0200, Kosta Porotchkin wrote: > Hello, experts! > My feeling that I have a simple problem, which I cannot solve alone. > Would appreciate any help from community. > > I have a 3-computer network at home: > First Windows workstation: 192.168.1.2/16, gw 192.168.1.

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 08:58:10PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: > - Right now I'm using the exim/fetchmail/procmail/mutt combo for my mail. > And I'm quite happy with the result. > If I move to the other Linux box as my primary workstation, the question > arises where to receive the mail to? >

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sunday 30 June 2002 18:29, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 21:06, Neal Lippman wrote: > > In terms of email: I use kde on my linux workstation, and the rest of my > > family uses outlook or outlook express on their windows boxen. I use an > > smtp server on my website (outside my lan)

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 21:06, Neal Lippman wrote: > In terms of email: I use kde on my linux workstation, and the rest of my > family uses outlook or outlook express on their windows boxen. I use an smtp > server on my website (outside my lan) to accumulate email, and then d/l it > into kmail via

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Jason Bleazard
Neal Lippman wrote: . > I use nfs for access from linux systems because that just seems to make more > sense, even though I could, in theory, access them via smbfs and smb as well. > I am not sure how the permissions would be handled in that situation, since > smb shares don't exactly mimic,

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Neal Lippman
I have a similar setup, with a older Mandrake system that I have turned into a fileserver, and my new debian system that I use as a workstation. The server has a minimal amount of diskspace allocated for /, /boot, /usr, /var, /tmp, and a large /home partition. The /home partition is shared via

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Larry Smith
I have a similar setup. I have an old system running Redhat acting as server. I use a Debian system as my desktop, and it acts as the internet gateway. I have a couple windows systems on the internal network. I use samba to allow file sharing with the windows systems, and have a samba configure

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-03 Thread Richard Otte
Success! I finally got ftp to work between Debian and the mac-osx. The problem was that the ip address I assigned the mac wasn't the same block. Thanks for all the advice. (and I sure feel stupid) But I was still puzzled as to why netatalk wouldn't work; I couldn't mount at all. So I plugged in

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-03 Thread Jason Healy
At 1023072193s since epoch (06/03/02 00:43:13 -0400 UTC), Richard Otte wrote: > but I'm thinking the problem may be with my > /etc/network/interfaces file. It reads: >iface lo inet loopback >iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.50 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > ne

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-03 Thread Joris
> /etc/network/interfaces file. It reads: >iface lo inet loopback >iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.50 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.1.0 > broadcast 192.168.1.255 > Does this look correct? I'm not sure if I need to do anything to have

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Richard Otte
Thanks for all the useful suggestions, but I'm still having problems getting things to work. I installed netatalk, and the Mac can see my machine, but cannot connect to it (it gives the error: files are already mounted locally). I then tried to ftp to the Mac, which had file sharing on and should

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 18:29:25 -0700, craigw wrote: >As far as printing, I have a question of my own: >Connected to the OS X machine is a Lexmark Z22, which has drivers for >Windoze, Mac Classic, and Mac OS X, but no Linux last time I checked. >Is there any hope of using it from the Linux box? see

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread craigw
On Sun Jun 02, 2002 at 01:55:13PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > At 1023018658s since epoch (06/02/02 09:50:58 -0400 UTC), Richard Otte wrote: > > At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd > > like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could > > transf

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Jason Healy
At 1023018658s since epoch (06/02/02 09:50:58 -0400 UTC), Richard Otte wrote: > At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd > like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could > transfer files between the machines. Since OS X is just Unix underneath,

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Cam Ellison
First, you need to install netatalk on the Linux box. It is set up to handle printing, too, though I haven't gotten it working with my setup (Mac laptop that I use for work), mostly due to sheer laziness. You will have to put a home subdirectory for your son on the Linux box. Good luck Cam *

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.02 09:50 Richard Otte wrote: At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could transfer files between the machines. We also have a postscript printer connected to the switch, and we both use the

Re: home "network"

2002-05-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 11 May 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > and eth1 is 10.x.x.x and the client machine is turned on once every > couple days for people to access the internet when they want, it is > also on 10.x.x.x ... now the problem. > Frequently when the client fires up it is not able to connect to the > host

Re: home "network"

2002-05-11 Thread jeff
Shawn Lamson wrote: > > Hi - > > I have two Debian machines linked on ethernet "straight thru" cable. > The host machine is up 24/7 and has a aDSL connection on eth0 w/ > 192.x.x.x > and eth1 is 10.x.x.x and the client machine is turned on once every > couple days for people to access the interne

Re: home "network"

2002-05-11 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Issuing ifconfig eth1 down and then ifconfig eth1 up on the host > seems to resolve the problem. However I am not usually around when > people want to get online and i dont want them fiddling with the > host - that is the whole idea of having the client.

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Jeff
Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 11:54 -0800: > I went back and they did the crossover wiring for me, now i get a green > light on both ends... still cant ping though... and i thought that was > it! I am going to reboot now and see if that affects anything... > currently have eth0 as 10.10.10.2 and 10.10

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:54 am, Shawn Lamson wrote: [snip] > > I went back and they did the crossover wiring for me, now i get a green > light on both ends... still cant ping though... and i thought that was > it! I am going to reboot now and see if that affects anything... > currently have et

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2002 03:23 am, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > Hi all - > > its that time again (debian mailing list help!) > > I set up a second box, with Caldera OL 3.1 and a 3com 3c509b card > in > > it. > > with adsl i can use it to go online fine... > > i hav

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Sunday 27 January 2002 03:23 am, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hi all - > its that time again (debian mailing list help!) > I set up a second box, with Caldera OL 3.1 and a 3com 3c509b card in > it. > with adsl i can use it to go online fine... > i have 2 NetGear FA 310 cards in my debian box... i can u

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 05:53:09AM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 05:53 -0800: > > You have to be kiddin' me; i spent $25 on a 35' cable, and stood there > > while they made it and tested it... i figured that the cable from NIC > > to aDSL modem must be crossover too, since the long

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Jeff
Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 05:53 -0800: > You have to be kiddin' me; i spent $25 on a 35' cable, and stood there > while they made it and tested it... i figured that the cable from NIC > to aDSL modem must be crossover too, since the long (35 footer) > performed the same function when i hooked up ei

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 03:23 -0800: > > of course, i always had "matching" addresses (on the same network). > > but i dont get a green light on the cards, and i cant ping! > > I re-emphasize that i can connect to the DSL modem with any of the > > cards/cabl

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Jeff
Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 03:23 -0800: > of course, i always had "matching" addresses (on the same network). > but i dont get a green light on the cards, and i cant ping! > I re-emphasize that i can connect to the DSL modem with any of the > cards/cables... Hmm, it appears to me that you are not u

Re: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:25:51AM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: | D-Man | Sorry for grabing you email address from the Debian | users list, but I have been on the mailing list from Not really a problem, but sending your questions to the list provides a wider audience and you are likely to get a lot of

Re: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread Kevin Ross
> What I want to do is use a Debian box for a firewall and > access to the internet for a win98 machine. The > Debian box will also be a BOT in one of the chat rooms > on Chatnet. Is there some documentation on setting up > the Network that I can read to do this? You'll want to setup packet filt

Re: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi Don... A good place to start might be here: www.linuxdoc.org ipmasq is probably what you want check out the how to's and stuff... If you run into trouble the list will be happy to help :) Mike - Original Message - From: "D-Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:05:55PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi Don... > > A good place to start might be here: > > www.linuxdoc.org almost everything is documented there. if yuo can find what you're looking for. :) > ipmasq is probably what you want definitely. apt-get ins

Re: home network

2001-03-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do I need to [build a home ethernet network] (other than NICs and > > cable, of course)? What is the difference between a hub and switch? > > You don't need a hub or switch if you implement an ethernet with co

Re: home network

2001-03-28 Thread pemhuygen
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do I need to [build a home ethernet network] (other than NICs and > cable, of course)? What is the difference between a hub and switch? You don't need a hub or switch if you implement an ethernet with coax cables. Otoh, a coax network is limited to a bandw

Re: home network

2001-03-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > >i thought 10baseT only allowed 10Mbs connections, even between 100Mbs > >capable cards. > > > >also, i bought a 4 port D-link switch for 25 plus shipping. at that price, > >you might as well buy the switch. the resale value is better. :) > > > > a

Re: home network

2001-03-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Daniel Freedman wrote: > If you don't want to get down-and-dirty with configuring IP-masg with > two-NIC's on one box to serve as internet gateway, you can buy a combo If you're going to have your Linux system online anyway, you may as well let it do the masquerading. It's n

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
> > jason > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Original Message - > From: "William T Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "D-Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 6:33 PM > Subject: Re: home network > > >

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:44:11PM -0500, William T Wilson scribbled... > The second way is a much better choice for a couple other reasons. It's much > more secure. The only box on my network that somebody can see is my gateway. > And it doesn't have an

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Pepas
: "William T Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "D-Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 6:33 PM Subject: Re: home network > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, D-Man wrote: > > > I am planning on building an ethernet netowrk at home. What do I need

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Jason Majors wrote: > Check out pricewatch.com (do a search for "isa nic"). I think the ISA ones > are all 10Mbps, so make sure you get a dual-speed hub/switch. I suggest one > with the NE2000 chip. I've had quite a few ne2k based cards and know that the > Linux driver is excellent for it. If I'm

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:44:11PM -0500, William T Wilson scribbled... > One thing I forgot to mention clearly in my other post is that you *do* > need a box to proxy the traffic of the others on the Internet, regardless > of whether you use a hub or a box-of-NIC's. > > If you have an analog mode

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > You could run a box with lots of ip masquerading to emulate a hub, but > that's like swatting flies with a hammer. Just get a hub. It's > cheaper, uses less power, and allows your boxes to see each other more > easily. Actually in such a case you would w

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, D-Man wrote: > I am planning on building an ethernet netowrk at home. What do I need > to do it (other than NICs and cable, of course)? What is the NICs and cable :} > difference between a hub and switch? Any recommended brands/models? A switch routes each packet only to

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:07:48PM -0500, D-Man scribbled... > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:46:18PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > | Check out the net-3 howto. > > Ok, thanks. linuxdoc.org I assume. > > | You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a > | hub and switch is that (a

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:46:18PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | Check out the net-3 howto. Ok, thanks. linuxdoc.org I assume. | You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a | hub and switch is that (assuming both are 100Mbps), the hub can | allow a maximum of 100Mbps of traf

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread John Griffiths
>i thought 10baseT only allowed 10Mbs connections, even between 100Mbs >capable cards. > >also, i bought a 4 port D-link switch for 25 plus shipping. at that price, >you might as well buy the switch. the resale value is better. :) > a good base 100 hub will also do base 10 but check b4 u buy.

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 27 Mar 01, 4:46 PM, Jason Majors said: > Check out the net-3 howto. > You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a hub and > switch > is that (assuming both are 100Mbps), the hub can allow a maximum of 100Mbps of > traffic (so two machines trying to transfer files fro

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
Check out the net-3 howto. You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a hub and switch is that (assuming both are 100Mbps), the hub can allow a maximum of 100Mbps of traffic (so two machines trying to transfer files from a server would get 50Mbps at most), and a switch allows 1

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread John Griffiths
>I am planning on building an ethernet netowrk at home. What do I need >to do it (other than NICs and cable, of course)? What is the >difference between a hub and switch? Any recommended brands/models? >Do I really need a hub/switch or can I use an old box with a lot of >NICs instead? Is there

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-30 Thread JD Kitch
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 06:24:26PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > right. here's my setup: > mac 192.168.1.100 > mac2 192.168.1.101 > mac3 192.168.1.102 > win 192.168.1.200 > all pointing to '192.168.1.1' (as above) for their gateway > (aka default

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:37:54PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I determine > > > the IP, netmask, and gateway for e

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread Ed Kear
At 04:38 PM 12/29/00 -0600, Pascal Hos wrote: On Friday 29 December 2000 04:37 pm, JD Kitch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I > > > d

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread Pascal Hos
On Friday 29 December 2000 04:37 pm, JD Kitch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I > > > determine the IP, netmask, and gateway for eth1,

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread JD Kitch
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I determine > > the IP, netmask, and gateway for eth1, and then for the internal > > machine? > i use 192.168.*.* fo

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 06:39:46PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I have a similar setup to yours and edited /etc/network/interfaces to > > add the address, netmask and broadcast address for my second ethernet > > card. After doing this ru

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am not expert but I do not think there is special tool for /etc/network. I am sure you may install one of graphical configuration tool like linuxconf but understanding what they really doing may be beyond our needs. Everthing in /etc are user configurable, I think. Though I keep all or

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-28 Thread JD Kitch
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 06:39:46PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:22:23PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > I've been running Debian Potato\Progeny for some time now, with a > > single nic attached to cable modem. I'm also running an ipchains > > firewall. I have added a second n

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:22:23PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > I've been running Debian Potato\Progeny for some time now, with a > single nic attached to cable modem. I'm also running an ipchains > firewall. I have added a second nic, which I would like to connect > the wife's windows machine to, an

Re: home network question

2000-09-22 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Thanks for all of the pointers. I'll start playing with it and see if I can get it to work. Andy will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:31:28PM +0100, Simon Hales wrote: > > > To allow your LAN to use the Internet, the box with the PPP connection > > must perform "IP Masquerading", w

Re: home network question

2000-09-22 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:31:28PM +0100, Simon Hales wrote: > To allow your LAN to use the Internet, the box with the PPP connection > must perform "IP Masquerading", which will pass packets from machines on > the LAN to the Internet, through the PPP link, and will make it appear > that these pac

Re: home network question

2000-09-22 Thread Simon Hales
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andrew D Dixon wrote: >Hi all, >I'm currently running potato on my desktop machine and I'd like to >configure it so that I can share it's ppp connection with my laptop over >an ethernet connection. Anybody have any advice on how I should set >this up? Hi I also have a Debia

Re: home network question

2000-09-22 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:55:24AM +0200, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi all, > I'm currently running potato on my desktop machine and I'd like to > configure it so that I can share it's ppp connection with my laptop over > an ethernet connection. Anybody have any advice on how I should set > this up?

Re: @home network

2000-08-06 Thread adam.edgar
ll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Jaron Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: @home network > >Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 22:38:15 -0700 (PDT) > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Received: from [216.234.231.6] by hotmail.com (3.

Re: @home network

2000-08-05 Thread Jaron Abbott
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Re: @home network

2000-08-05 Thread Tom Marshall
The third number in each of the addresses below should be 1, not 10. Sorry about the typos. > ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.10.0/24 -d ! 192.168.10.0/24 -j MASQ > > Configure the machines A, B and C with their gateway set to 192.168.10.1 and > setup their DNS, and your should be set.

Re: @home network

2000-08-05 Thread Tom Marshall
I just got an @home cablemodem last weekend and I've been running ipmasq for quite some time over a normal dialup. The short answer is that you can connect as many computers through your service as you like, using only one IP address, and you don't really need two ethernet cards in any of the comp

Re: @home network

2000-08-05 Thread John Foster
Jaron Abbott wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm wondering if anybody can help me figure out how to connect two computers > to one net connection (@home network). The computer I want to add is a > Debian box (potato), the currently connected computer is a Windoze box. I'd > like to be able to run stuff l

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
I did this at work for a while. I ran VMware with Win98 as the guest OS on a Celeron 466 with lots of ram, (somebody else was using this system), and displayed it to my measly memory-strapped Pentium 166. It worked quite well, except it wouldn't let me do full screen VMWare. On 15-Mar-2000 Brad w

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:18:44PM -0600, rich wrote: > total network newbie here, > > I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use > as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is > potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thoug

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Vitux
rich wrote: > > total network newbie here, > > I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use > as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is > potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thought > would work on the 486, but would I

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
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Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Brad
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:18:44PM -0600, rich wrote: > > BTW, is it really even feasible to use a 486 to run X programs like > wordperfect and Netscape off of my pentium? i'm just throwing my $0.02 in here, because it seems like other posters are missing something (of course, it could be just me

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "rich" == rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > total network newbie here, I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with > 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use as an x-terminal to connect > to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is potato appropriate for > a 486? I have an old cd of bo th

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
At 09:18 PM 3/14/00 -0600, rich wrote: >I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use >as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is >potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thought >would work on the 486, but would I be able to

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread dan
I don't see why it would make any difference. You can use your old hardware as firewall/router/server, but don't run X clients on it. Being an X terminal is all it will be able to do as far as running X.

Re: home network w/win'98 & Debian

1998-07-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Jesus Duran writes: > > Greetings all, > > > i'll try to keep this as short was possible > i need someone to point me somewhere where i can find info on > networking.such as setup and protocols, hardware etc... Have you ever heard of the NAG? Network administrators guide written by Ola

Re: Home Network TCP/IP with PPP ?

1998-06-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone give me a concise description of how to set up a home-network > of a linux machine (with modem) and Windows 95 machine, so that the > Windows 95 machine can access the internet through the PPP connection > of the linux machine (st