ethernet oddity

[debiani386]

Sandy Harris wrote:
> I have two machines, recently installed Xubuntu on both.
> One Ethernet works and the other does not.
>
>  Both use static IPs, 172.31.255.[12], they talk to the
>  same router, and switching cables or router ports does
>  not help. Xubuntu on both is 7.10 Gutsy.
>
>  I used 1386 on both even though one is AMD, because
>  one will be an xterm to the other and it seemed easier
>  to just have one architecture. The AMD is working, and
>  the Intel-based machine not, though, so architecture is
>  not the problem.
>
> Working machine has onboard 10/100 network that
> uses Sundance driver.
>
> One with problems is Core 2 duo on a Gigabyte board,
> model #GA-G31M-S2L. Gigabyte docs say the onboard
> gigabit ethernet uses Realtek R8111B chip, and lspci
> says 8111/8168B, but the driver that is loading is R8169.
> Could that be the problem?
>
>  pinging its own address, 172...2 works, but not the
>  router at .254 or other machine at .1. Router does
>  respond to pings from the other machine.
>
>   
ok so what it looks like you are trying to do is get it to route out to 
the internet (or atleast use your computer as a route to your router). 
In which case, you need to use firestarter.

To install it, type sudo apt-get install firestarter

a guide on setting up internet connection sharing with firestarter can 
be found at: *http://www.fs-security.com/docs/connection-sharing.php


hth
--cj
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