[PLUG] Subject: Inet Connection Sharing (Mandrake 8.0 gateway, MDK 9.0 host)

Russell Evans revans at e-z.net
Fri Nov 15 06:26:57 UTC 2002


Switch, hub, or cross over cable?

Switch or hub, it could be a 10/100 auto negotiation issue. Manually setting
the client's Ethernet speed, 10 or 100 and mode, half or full, might solve the
issue.

If cross over cable, when the client powers off, the Ethernet link would go
dead. Your firewall, if you have one, might not allow connections until it was
was restarted after the link comes back up. Also routing might be automatically
disabled in the event of link loss and only restarted when you restart your
network.

If you are using a cross over cable and the client is a newer box with WOL,
wake on LAN, then turning it on should leave the Ethernet link intact when the
client is powered down but not unplugged.  

Thank you


On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:44:42 -0800, Kevin Cosgrove said:

> 
>  The short answer is that I had to reboot the gateway computer, in
>  spite of restarting necessary services, which I would hope MCC
>  would have done for me anyway.
>  
>  In a related topic, if I turn off my client PC, and then
>  subsequently turn it back on, then I have to restart my "network"
>  service, or network traffic just won't go there.  Anyone know why
>  this would be?  Rebooting the client PC without powering it down,
>  does not cause this trouble.
>  
>  Thanks...
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  On 13 November 2002 at 11:58, Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc at dOink.COM> wrote:
>  
>  Short Summary:  Mandrake Control Center (MCC) connection sharing broke
>  		the ability to ping on my LAN.  Can you help?
>  
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