Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-17 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:14, Tommaso Moroni wrote: Hugh Saunders wrote: "a" is 192.168.1.2 which is on another subnet to "B" which appears to be on 192.168.100.1 ?? is B's IPaddr 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.100.1?? That's a difficult question, because actually I've never unders

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:14, Tommaso Moroni wrote: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > > "a" is 192.168.1.2 which is on another subnet to "B" which appears to be > > on 192.168.100.1 ?? > > is B's IPaddr 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.100.1?? > > That's a difficult question, because actually I've never understood wh

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-14 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Hugh Saunders wrote: "a" is 192.168.1.2 which is on another subnet to "B" which appears to be on 192.168.100.1 ?? is B's IPaddr 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.100.1?? That's a difficult question, because actually I've never understood what happens with the ADSL drivers I use! Anyway, when I connect to

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-14 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Colin Ellis wrote: Firstly, your eth0 interface is not configured at all. You will need to load the necessary driver module for the card and edit /etc/network/interfaces to configure it. After this is done correctly you should get it added to your routing table automatically. You will get an en

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-14 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:42:11PM +0100, Tommaso Moroni wrote: > Tommaso Moroni wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'd like to install Debian on an old pc (hereafter called A) using an > > ADSL connection I have on another PC (hereafter called B). The problem > > is that after configuring the network on A it

RE: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-14 Thread Colin Ellis
Ltd http://www.solution-city.com -Original Message- From: Tommaso Moroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 January 2003 13:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem setting up a local network Tommaso Moroni wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to install Debian on an old pc (he

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-14 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Tommaso Moroni wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to install Debian on an old pc (hereafter called A) using an > ADSL connection I have on another PC (hereafter called B). The problem > is that after configuring the network on A it doesn't "see" B: the > interface is correctly configured but a simple ping t

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-13 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Just bringing up the eth0 interface should add the routing information. If not "route add 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0" should do it. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting Tommaso Moroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > I'd like to install Debian on an old pc (hereafter called A) using an > ADSL connection I have o

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
heya, this sounds like a job for iptables. you have to do more than having just routes added, since you need to be able to do some packet mangling to get the traffic back to A again after it goes out to the internet. if i understand correctly you have a network like < 192.168 lan (with a) > ===

problem setting up a local network

2003-01-12 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Hi! I'd like to install Debian on an old pc (hereafter called A) using an ADSL connection I have on another PC (hereafter called B). The problem is that after configuring the network on A it doesn't "see" B: the interface is correctly configured but a simple ping to B fails. I've already checke