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Re: bentley and FC3
i am an ignorant little Linux User, who has dabbled in FreeBSD and
Redhat,Mandrake, and Windows. Bottom line is that i am ignorant and
learning. i might take a programming class to learn how to write some,
or something similiar to, shell scripts. however, here are the answers
to the previous letter.
i have six 3com ethernet 10/100 or whatever they are, ethernet cards.
Four of these are in the Machine downstairs (two for spares). I have
one Linksys ethernet 10/100 card in the machine. This means i have
five cards in the machine downstairs that are purely ethernet cards.
the linksys is the internet/ gatekeeper, the 3com's are for home use.
i do not know what you mean by lowest and highest nic aliases. i know
what a nic is, i do not know about aliasing. Do you mean that the
lowest alias would be 0 or 4? 4 would seem to be higher than 0 to me,
but i am ignorant again i work in surgery and, sometimes, 0 is bigger
than 4. Usually 4-0 is smaller than 0 and 4 is bigger than 0.
Sorry! I want the machine to function foremost as a router. then as
a machine that i can put my external usb2.0 hard drive on. i have
already discovered how to use the fstab file and parted to partition and
make the entries into the fstab so i may access the drive at boot
without actually having to go through /media all the time.
when you say Physical connections to each, i'm confused. all i know is
the following: eth4 is connected to my aDSL modem. eth4 is setup for
auto DHCP configuration. i setup another connection to use eth4 to dial
the aDSL modem and reconnect if needed. so eth4 is physically connected
to the internet if i understand correctly. eth4 works, and i have
updated the computer over the internet. eth3 and eth2 are physically
connected to two different computers. eth1 and eth0 are not connected
to anything, no wires in other words. i thought that if i did the eth3
and connected it to my computer, then i could automatically connect to
the internet through the other computer by auto-DHCP'ing to the
downstairs computer. However, i'[m thinking i have to supply IP
address,subnet address, and default gateway address. i do not know if
the IP address and the Default gateway address need be the same or not,
for instance 192.168.0.1 or if the IP be *.*.0.2 and the gateway *.*.0.1
i was reading in the DUMMIES book that the gateway upstairs needs to
match my IP downstairs. but it never mentioned what the IP upstairs was
supposed to be.
i'm starting to think i should attend some of these meetings and see
whats going on!
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:29, bentley_rhodes wrote:
>
>
>>Greetings, i'm using FC3 and i have a server box downstairs. i have
>>another computer upstairs, that i use for general purpose stuff. i
>>would like to turn the computer downstairs into a server. it currently
>>has one linksys ethernet card (eth4) on the first pci slot.
>>
>>
>
>The first PCI slot from the AGP or closest to the CPU is not necessarily
>PCI#1.
>
>But the mappings in /etc/modules.conf (2.4) or /etc/modprobe.conf (2.6)
>override your settings. E.g.,
> alias eth0 3c59x
> alias eth1 3c59x
> alias eth2 3c59x
> alias eth3 3c59x
> alias eth4 tulip
>
>
>
>>and the others are 3com 3c095b or c ethernet cards, clones i think.
>>
>>
>
>The 3com 3c59x driver should drive all 3c59x as well as 3c90x cards, at
>least they did the last time I checked.
>
>
>
>>Now, i would like some help if anyone can?
>>the eth4 card is SUPPOSED to be eth0. aside from that, eth4 is
>>connected to the aDSL modem, and i have set it up to automatically
>>assign or take its address from the DHCP. i set up eth3 and eth2 to
>>have the exact same addresses:
>>* address 192.168.0.2
>>* subnet mask 255.255.255.0
>>* default gateway address 192.168.0.1
>>
>>
>
>??? Do you _physically_ have 5 NICs ???
>Or are you trying to do interface aliasing?
>
>Just FYI, you typically want your _static_ IPs as the _lowest_ NIC
>aliases. And the DHCP assigned to the _highest_ NIC aliases.
>
>
>
>>now when i type that into my eth3 card (which should be eth1), the plug
>>icon doesn't connect. if i say i am typing it in statically then it
>>will, but if i came upstairs and typed it in, then it wouldn't connect
>>from my Linux Computer. Should the downstairs computer be automatically
>>detect dhcp settings for eth4 eth3 and eth2? Or should i set eth3 and
>>eth2 statically?
>>
>>
>
>What are your _physical_ connections to each? I'm kinda scratching my
>head. If you have DHCP setup to NICs but they aren't connected to
>anything, they will _fail_ to get anything but a 169.254.x.x address
>(IPv4 LINKLOCAL).
>
>
>
>>i have a DUMMIES book that is by Author Naba Barkakati, "Red Hat Fedora
>>Linux 2 All-In-One Desk Reference" with a mini reference book titled
>>_Networking_. It kind of explains how to set up the downstairs computer
>>as a NAT router, but it doesn't exactly spell it out. For example, it
>>does not say, right click on the eth0 icon and set it to static and
>>enter this information. I do not know if the IP address matters, but
>>the gateway adress i read should be 192.168.*.* (or typically
>>192.168.0.1), the downstairs computer assigns a number to the last digit
>>like 100 or 101 or something. Granted it doesn't get any easier, since
>>i have a WinXP computer i would like to hook up as well. I've read
>>something in there though, i think, about WinBinding or setting up a
>>Wins.
>>
>>
>
>NT Hardware+Protocol "Bindings" have nothing to do with "WINS"
>resolution. Or are you looking to setup WINS on your home network?
>Understand that UNIX/Linux normally does _not_ use WINS to resolve
>hostnames, only Windows does.
>
>
>
>>So all i ask for help with now, is merely the Linux portion.
>>
>>
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