Question about connecting to the net through a winxp machine
Scott Burns
scott at mirrabooka.com
Tue Dec 9 05:25:36 UTC 2003
Sponger wrote:
>How the hell do I do this? I have the xp machine setup with two nics, one
>for the broadband, the other for the network, and I have the fedora machine
>setup with a static IP and a gateway address of the network address of the
>xp machine. What am I missing?
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>Thanks guys..this would really help out a lot!
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Can you ping the winxp machine?
Use /usr/sin/traceroute www.google.com to see the path your packets
take. If DNS does not work use 216.239.57.99
Make sure masquerading is turned on on the winxp machine - IMHO it's the
most likely mistake.
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Scott Burns
Mirrabooka Systems
Tel +61 7 3857 7899
Fax +61 7 3857 1368
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