Networking issues

Forum: Networking
Topic: Networking issues
started by: NoRiMorse

Posted by NoRiMorse on July 22 2004,19:21

I've searched for an answer to this problem but have been unable to resolve it despite various attempts.

I have a DSL (modified with debian updates) box which connects to the internet via a USB connection to an RCA cable modem. DSL detects and works perfectly.

I have another DSL/Win98 box (DSL is standard HDinstall) which is connected to the DSL box via a crossover wire connecting two ethernet cards..I should point out this crossover is handmade from a regular cat5 spliced and modified to cross over the necessary wires.

I can ping both name and ip from both machines with no problems...from windows and from DSL on the second machine. Clearly there is an active connection. I can ping google.com (and 216.239.37.99) with no problem from the DSL box but cannot ping either google or its ip from box2.

The problem: I cannot get from box2 to the internet...It did pick up the DNS server addies of my provider from box1 when I did netcardconfig. The same is true of Win98, I can do ping and ping back but I cannot surf through the DSL box.

So, how do I complete the network? I'm sure I've probably missed something simple as this is my first attempt at networking anything. Ideally what I need is for the Win98 box to connect to the internet through the DSL box, and I need to be able to share files (I'm hoping to run mysql on the win98 box to free up more memory for apache on the DSL box...and to be able to gain access to webpages from win98 box.

Other Info:
box1 route -n produces
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
24.57.0.01 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 24.57.0.1 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

box2 route -n produces

Dest Gate Gen Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.20 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

I've tried setting the gateway in netcardconfig to 192.168.1.20 and 24.57.0.1 and neither resolved the issue, I am still unable to reach the internet from box2
(error cannot connect ot remote host - dillo)

anyone know what not-so-trivial bit of information I am missing?? Do I need proxy support on the DSL box? have I missed something so simple that I'm going to want to kick myself when I find out? or am i way off base and missing very some important software or configuration?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice.