connect 2 dsl machinesForum: Networking Topic: connect 2 dsl machines started by: morchel Posted by morchel on Feb. 07 2004,16:15
I tried to connect two machines with dsl (booted from dsl-cd), but unfortunately without success.i configured the network with netcardconfig on both machines Machine 1: IP 192.168.0.1 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Bcast: 192.168.0.255 Machine 2: IP 192.168.0.2 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Bcast: 192.168.0.255 I tried it with and without specifying a default gateway, but I'm not even able to ping it. I do not know a lot about network-stuff, so maybe I didn't do something obvious, or did it the wrong way, just give me a hint please. Regards Morchel Posted by pipo on Feb. 07 2004,23:11
How do you connect, link the machines themselves : with a hub, a router ? Posted by morchel on Feb. 09 2004,15:23
I connected them just with a crossed-over ethernet cable. Thatworks, because I'm able to establish an connection under windows (on both machines runs windows currently). Posted by pipo on Feb. 09 2004,21:13
what answer do you get when you typefrom machine 2 ping 192.168.0.1 or from machine 1 ping 192.168.0.2 Posted by morchel on Feb. 28 2004,11:45
no answer# ping 192.168.0.2 PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes after interupting it with ctrl-c --- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics --- 245 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss same result on machine 1 I tried it with dsl 5.0 and dsl 6.1 (although I don't think that matters). Do I have to do something else than configuring the cards with netcardconfig? With dsl running on one machine and XP running on the other everything I need works fine (smbtree, smbclient, http-server etc). Any ideas? Posted by morchel on Feb. 28 2004,13:43
Ok, I kind of solved the problem.I have two cards on one machine. Switching the cable from one to the other card was all I had to do. Sorry for bothering you. What I still don't understand is that I configured both cards on that machine (192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3). Why didn't ping work? Now (after switching the cable) I can ping both adapters from machine 1. Strange things happen. Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 28 2004,20:48
I don't have any networking experience, so could you tell us what you are able to do with the two networked machines. Are you able to share an internet connection? I have firewalls on Redhat 9 machines, and would like to network to a Damn Small Linux machine, and surf the web with MozillaFirebird, and have the protection of the Redhat box's firewall. Is this possible?--- Posted by libretto on Mar. 01 2004,09:46
RapidweatherIn the house here weve got a firewall running Smoothwall 2.0 which serves internet to the whole house, including my DSL machine. Posted by morchel on Mar. 01 2004,13:15
I don't have any networking experience either, so I will need some time to find out how things work.Right now I just managed to connect the machines and use ssh and ftp (by starting the daemons on one machine). My next step will be mounting shares via nfs. Then I would like to use dsl to serve internet to the other machine(s), but I don't know if it's possible. I,ve heard something about that the kernel has to be ip-forwarding enabled. but as I said before I will have to do some research before. And than I will install a firewall. And again I will need to read a lot before. As soon as I find out how to do all that I will tell you. |