Re: Networking +RH8

[greg <gklofa adsl on net>]

It's o.k., 

I have it sorted now.  Will have a couple of questions later on, but for
now, forget the below message.

regards Greg
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 20:54, greg wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have recently set up two computers, with the aim of networking.  Both
> computers have 2 nic cards in them.  My main pc, has onboard intel lan,
> and one realtek nic, the second has two realtek nics.  Both are
> networked in windows xp no problems, and both are accessing the internet
> as well.
> 
> In RH8, the main pc had the second nic installed after the o/s install. 
> I can't get this system to activate the nic at all.  On the second pc,
> the o/s was intalled after everything was installed, and both of the
> nics activate, but don't go anywhere.  With regard to the nic connected
> to my modem/router, on the main pc, I use static set ip, and the
> settings are 10.0.0.1 for ip, subnet mask of 255.0.0.0, and gateway of
> 10.0.0.138 (my modem/router).  This works no probs, and always has.  
> When I use the same settings on the other pc for the internet nic, this
> gets me nowhere, it does not want to access the net.
> 
> With regard to the network nics (obviously the one on each computer that
> I do not have connected to the modem/router) I just want to connect them
> card to card, using a crossover cable.  This is done, and as I said, in
> windows no probs setting it up.  I can not get the card on my main pc to
> even activate in RH (this card was installed after the o/s).  On the
> other pc, it is activated.  
> 
> What is going on with the second pc and the internet connection?  I
> though the same settings as the main pc would work (other than a
> different ip address, which I set to 10.0.0.11).  
> How do I go about setting up the nic to nic network?  What tools are
> there available for me to use, and where is a good tutorial on how to
> set it all up?
> 
> regards Greg
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> greg <gklofa adsl on net>
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