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?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM, James Cuénod <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j3frea@gmail.com">j3frea@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>You'd want a different IP range for each different card in your desktop<br> </div> machine. If they're the same, you would probably not be able to route to<br> one of the networks (which will explain why you couldn't ping your<br> laptop). So if your home network is on <a href="http://10.0.0.0" target="_blank">10.0.0.0</a>, try making your<br> laptop's address something like <a href="http://192.168.0.10" target="_blank">192.168.0.10</a> and the ethernet card on<br> your desktop that connects to the laptop <a href="http://192.168.0.11" target="_blank">192.168.0.11</a>. You should then<br> be able to ping your laptop from the desktop, and the desktop from the<br> laptop. You should also be able to ping the rest of your hosts from your<br> desktop. When that works, then you can set up the routing as they<br> describe in that howto.<br> <div><div></div><div><br> -Jonathan</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>It seemed like that tutorial was asking me to make the IPs the same - this is my current setup:<br><br>Router[<a href="http://192.168.1.254" target="_blank">192.168.1.254</a> on <a href="http://255.255.255.0" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a>] --- eth0+PC+eth1 --- eth0+laptop<br> <br>So I have eth0 of PC <a href="http://192.168.1.24" target="_blank">192.168.1.24</a> <br>For eth1 of PC I've tried <a href="http://192.168.1.10" target="_blank">192.168.1.10</a> on the same subnet mask as well as <a href="http://10.0.0.1" target="_blank">10.0.0.1</a> and then also <a href="http://169.254.1.1" target="_blank">169.254.1.1</a> on <a href="http://255.255.0.0" target="_blank">255.255.0.0</a> with eth0 of my laptop configured correctly each time.<br> <br>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)...<br> <br>The tutorial says:<br><br># ifconfig ethX ip <br> where ethX is the network card and ip is your desired server ip address (Usually <a href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank">192.168.0.1</a> is used)<br><br>I assume that this means eth1 on PC... The IP Address I assume (from what you've said now) should be completely unique<br> </div></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ<br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ<br>