[TriLUG] Internet connection Sharing

[Chris Bullock]

gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:

>Can you run just a plain 'ol ifconfig as root and put that info in an e-mail? 
>I'm curious to see the state of eth0 and eth1.
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can't cut and past cause no public interface but ifconfig does not see 
eth0 at all it sees eth1 with internal IP of 192.168.1.1, and always the 
standard loopback,
--cgb

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>Greg
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>On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 0:17:07 -0500 Chris Bullock <cgbullock at cox.net> wrote:
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>>>From: Jeremy Portzer 
>>>Date: 2003/01/06 Mon PM 11:56:39 EST
>>>To: trilug at trilug.org
>>>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Internet connection
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>>Sharing
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>>>What happens if you run "ifup eth0" to bring
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>>up the eth0 interface
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>>>"manually"?
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>>if eth0 failed
>>tried restarting network always brings up eth1
>>but not eth0
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>>>--Jeremy
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>>>On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:34, Chris Bullock
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>>wrote:
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>>>>I am tring to set up Internet connection
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>>sharing for my 
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>>>>home network.  Hardware, Using a Compaq
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>>deskpro with dual 
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>>>>nics, one compaq and one smc1211.  Have
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>>broadband coming 
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>>>>in from my modem to eth0 which is my compaq
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>>card.  eth1 
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>>>>(SMC)card is going to a Netgear 4-port 10mb
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>>hub which will 
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>>>>hopefully feed my internal machines.  I am
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>>using Mandrake 
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>>>>9.0 with all the updates.  I have tried
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>>this twice on two 
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>>>>different machines with the same result.  I
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>>goto Mandrake 
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>>>>Control Center and click Internet
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>>connection sharing and 
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>>>>go through the steps, download the needed
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>>packages and so 
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>>>>on, Configure my eth0 as the Internet
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>>interface and my 
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>>>>eth1 as the LAN interface.  All seems well
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>>until it 
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>>>>finishes configuring.  At this point my
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>>eth0 (Internet if) 
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>>>>goes down. No light on the card or the
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>>modem.  service 
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>>>>network start will not bring up external
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>>interface.  
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>>>>ifconfig does not show external but does
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>>show the 
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>>>>internal.  What file(s) does the Internet
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>>connection file 
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>>>>use so maybe I can look at to see anything
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>>that stands 
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>>>>out?  Or can someone help? 
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>>>>Thanks in advance, 
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>>>>--Chris  
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