[ubuntu-za] Network Problems

[James Cuénod]

Okay, nevermind... Thanks for all the help, I got it working eventually
using an actual bridge. Just out of interest, why would I not want to use an
actual bridge?

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM, James Cuénod <j3frea at gmail.com> wrote:

> You'd want a different IP range for each different card in your desktop
>>  machine. If they're the same, you would probably not be able to route to
>> one of the networks (which will explain why you couldn't ping your
>> laptop). So if your home network is on 10.0.0.0, try making your
>> laptop's address something like 192.168.0.10 and the ethernet card on
>> your desktop that connects to the laptop 192.168.0.11. You should then
>> be able to ping your laptop from the desktop, and the desktop from the
>> laptop. You should also be able to ping the rest of your hosts from your
>> desktop. When that works, then you can set up the routing as they
>> describe in that howto.
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>
> It seemed like that tutorial was asking me to make the IPs the same - this
> is my current setup:
>
> Router[192.168.1.254 on 255.255.255.0] --- eth0+PC+eth1 --- eth0+laptop
>
> So I have eth0 of PC 192.168.1.24
> For eth1 of PC I've tried 192.168.1.10 on the same subnet mask as well as
> 10.0.0.1 and then also 169.254.1.1 on 255.255.0.0 with eth0 of my laptop
> configured correctly each time.
>
> I have also been trying to get things going using firestarter so I hope
> this isn't mucking around with any settings cause every time I run
> /etc/init.d/networking restart it gives some output... (And even when it was
> completely successful and I selected for it to allow ICS I still had no
> luck)...
>
> The tutorial says:
>
> # ifconfig ethX ip
> where ethX is the network card and ip is your desired server ip address
> (Usually 192.168.0.1 is used)
>
> I assume that this means eth1 on PC... The IP Address I assume (from what
> you've said now) should be completely unique
>
>
> --
> James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ
>



-- 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ
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