[PLUG] network setup problems

Carla Schroder pluglist at bratgrrl.com
Thu Oct 31 16:09:20 UTC 2002


On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:31, Terrel Woolbright wrote:
>     Hello everyone. I am attempting to do a  network setup here at home.
> I have AT&T cable, a Mandrake 9 Linux box between it and an Intel 10/100
> hub and connected to the hub a Win98 box and Mandrake 9 Linux box. I can
> ping from any box to another box and to the outside (@ AT&T) so I figure
> I am "getting out". But I cannot start up lynx or Mozilla or anything
> else and get connected to the internet on any machine but the one just
> behind the cable modem.
>     The box behind the modem is set for dhcp on eth0 for AT&T and eth1
> one is set static. The other two boxes are set with static IP addresses
> and the gateway to the IP of eth1 for the first box. It seemed like such
> a great thing to be able to ping to the outside. I just seem to be
> missing something or just not sure which step is next to take.
>

Did you set the DNS? I'm not familiar with cable, on others you need to set 
the DNS on each box- whatever DNS server settings AT&T gave you.

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