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Re: home network

Subject: Re: home network
From: ray
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:59:51 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
On Tue, 10 May 2005 23:33:40 +0200, John Johansson wrote:

> I'm trying to set up a home network at home between my Slackware box and 
> a laptop running Win XP, but i don't have a clue on how to do it. I've 
> got 2 nics in my slackware box = eth0 - eth1. eth1 is for internet and 
> is set up correctly, and now i want eth1 to serve my Win XP laptop. Can 
> someone give me some hints on how to do this? With dhcpd? How? Here's my 
> output from ifconfig:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:A1:73:56:13
>            UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:7080 (6.9 Kb)
>            Interrupt:18 Base address:0xb000
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:4B:25:A1
>            inet addr:213.67.250.59  Bcast:213.67.250.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:4482290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:5559116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:846539024 (807.3 Mb)  TX bytes:1855402329 (1769.4 Mb)
>            Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe800
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:3680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:3680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:164624 (160.7 Kb)  TX bytes:164624 (160.7 Kb)
> 
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>            inet addr:192.168.0.1  P-t-P:192.168.0.2  Mask:255.255.255.255
>            UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:42648 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:10525 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
>            RX bytes:2076292 (1.9 Mb)  TX bytes:1787396 (1.7 Mb)
> 
> ppp0 is connected to my other laptop running slackware aswell.
> 
> /john

For starters, you're going to need to tell the laptop to use the linux box
as a gateway if you haven't done so already.



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