[TriLUG] Internet connection Sharing

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Mon Jan 6 23:56:39 EST 2003


What happens if you run "ifup eth0" to bring up the eth0 interface
"manually"?

--Jeremy

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:34, Chris Bullock wrote:
> I am tring to set up Internet connection sharing for my 
> home network.  Hardware, Using a Compaq deskpro with dual 
> nics, one compaq and one smc1211.  Have broadband coming 
> in from my modem to eth0 which is my compaq card.  eth1 
> (SMC)card is going to a Netgear 4-port 10mb hub which will 
> hopefully feed my internal machines.  I am using Mandrake 
> 9.0 with all the updates.  I have tried this twice on two 
> different machines with the same result.  I goto Mandrake 
> Control Center and click Internet connection sharing and 
> go through the steps, download the needed packages and so 
> on, Configure my eth0 as the Internet interface and my 
> eth1 as the LAN interface.  All seems well until it 
> finishes configuring.  At this point my eth0 (Internet if) 
> goes down. No light on the card or the modem.  service 
> network start will not bring up external interface.  
> ifconfig does not show external but does show the 
> internal.  What file(s) does the Internet connection file 
> use so maybe I can look at to see anything that stands 
> out?  Or can someone help? 
>  
> Thanks in advance, 
>  
> --Chris  
> 
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