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Topic: Configuring dsl to share a connection, I need help on how to do it

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,23:19

I just got DSL set up, did a hard drive install, and then used a crossover cable (Its a cross over cable because its been used to connect 2 machines together before) to connect the DSL machine to my windows XP machine. The XP machine detects theres a network, and says its fine (No error messages) but the DSL machine cant find anything. What im trying to do is share my dialup connection across the 2 machines, and possibly share files when i need to. Im a complete newbie when it comes to DSL and ive looked through the site and did a search on the forums and couldnt find anyone that was having the same problem as me, so if anyone knows what to do, thatd be a great help. Thank you.

*Edit* im also running zone alarm on the windows XP machine, although i set the network to Trusted. Maybe this could be part of the problem?

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,23:57

Did you try Internet Connection Sharing?

Go into Network Connections and then click on the Create Home Network Wizzard and try setting that up. I don't have the specifics but windows might not be passing the packets on. Another thing would be to try an bridge the DSL and DialUP.

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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,00:18

Well, that was part of the problem but there is still something else wrong. I have the connection shared now, but still when i try to access a page using Dillo, it says "ERROR: Dns can't resolve www.google.com" (example). Although now after i shared the connection, instead of that error immediately showing, it waits 5-10 seconds, and also some network activity occurs. Also after i shared the connection, netcardconfig ran through instead of stalling out.

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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,01:45

this really doesnt sound like a problem with connection sharing, its the fact that DSL usually uses DHCP broadcast to set up the network and your comp isnt set up as a DHCP server.

and DSL hates crossovers, but thats another story...

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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,05:39

If you are getting unable to resolve DNS, then maybe your nameserver did not get set from the windows network sharing.
Can you ping an external IP, say for example, 66.94.230.44 ?
If you can, then, you have internet sharing working.
Next, what is the result of cat /etc/resolv.conf ?
To manually enter your ISP's DNS ip do this
echo "nameserver 99.99.99.99" > /etc/resolv.conf
where 99.99.99.99 is your ISP's DNS server's IP.
Then your external names should resolve to IP.

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