[TriLUG] NAT / home network connectivity problem
Reginald Reed
reginald at cisco.com
Thu Oct 24 11:45:33 EDT 2002
Ditto on this one too. I think you can set the speed and duplex in the
network control panel for Win95. I'd hardcode the settings for
100/full.
--Reggie
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> [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Jason Tower
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:29 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] NAT / home network connectivity problem
>
>
> some 3Com cards have trouble with detecting the cable or
> negotiating the link
> speed and/or duplex (one of my 3com NICs ran into this at the NCSU
> installfest). not sure if it's a linux kernel module issue
> or a hardware
> (but i'm inclined to say hardware). supposedly there exists
> a DOS utility
> that can be used to change the bios setting on the nic
> itself, that might
> bring you some relief. i'm sure cnet.com or mr. google can
> help you find the
> utility.
>
> jason
>
> On Thursday 24 October 2002 00:36, Alan Ellis wrote:
> > I have an old Dell Optiplex GXPro running RedHat 7.2. It
> is doing IP
> > Masq / NAT for my family's Win95 machine. Ethernet
> configuration is:
> > eth1: Linksys 10/100 LNE100TX v5.1 => cable modem
> > eth0: built-in 3c905 with 3c59x module => 192.168.0.1
> >
> > The win95 machine (192.168.0.2) has a 3com Fast Etherlink 10/100
> > Bus-Master PCI card. This is connected directly to eth0 by
> a 20-foot
> > crossover cable.
> >
> > Everything works *great* except that whenever we turn the win95
> > machine on the two machines can't even ping each other.
> Consistently
> > I can solve the problem by unplugging the crossover cable from eth0
> > and plugging it back in, and then the win95 machine can see
> both the
> > NAT server and the outside world. Anybody know a better
> solution? Or
> > where the problem is likely to be?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --Alan
> >
> >
> > BTW (to follow up on an earlier thread) I did get Time
> Warner to come
> > install cable for RoadRunner. I removed the hard drives
> temporarily
> > from my Linux box and swapped in a hard drive with Win98. The tech
> > looked at this long enough to check system requirements (32MB RAM,
> > 110MB free, and no conflicts in device manager) then handed
> me the RR
> > software CD. I shelved the CD, replaced the hard drives,
> and was in
> > business in minutes (though a little surprised when Linux knew the
> > hostname that had been recorded in Win98!). Thanks again
> to those who
> > advised this solution.
> >
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