[olug] Eth0 delaying (Fail) continued

[Dave Burchell]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:51:44PM -0500, Tom wrote:
> Thanks Jeff.  I tried that and as I said in one of my other messages it
> appears to be talking to host as received and sent packets are adding up but
> no IP address and think it is a IO port issue now.  If I do ifconfig it says
> I am on 0x0250 but the card and in 98 both show me on 0x0240 and that is
> what's in the modules.config and linuxconfig screens.  So I thought ok if I
> can't change what's in the ifconfig display (don't know where it is) then
> will change the card and all the config files to 0x0250 but the card utility
> does not let me select 250 only 240 then 260 :(  So again I think if I can
> change that 1 address I will be up and not having to reboot every 15 minutes
> or so to use internet or email to look for answers..

(Sorry for not following the discussion closely, but) have you gotten
the card to work properly with your Linux box under simpler
circumstances?  If not, do this.

Don't waste your time trying to get your computer working with your ISP
yet.  First just make your card (and the Linux box you have it plugged
into) communicate with another machine on your LAN.  Set it for a
static IP address -- 10.10.10.1 will work.  Make sure another machine
on your LAN is set to, say, 10.10.10.2.  See if you can ping between
them.

BTW, I'd advise against set up a day-to-day Linux box with DHCP on your
home LAN.  Set up a cheap, underpowered box with two NICs and no hard
drive.  Run the Linux Router Project off a floppy.  Have it talk to
your cable modem or DSL router, and have it run DHCP (for one of the
cards) if you like.  Set the other card up on a non-routed network,
along with the other computers in your house, using a static IP
address.  NAT (IPMasq) will make all of your LAN workstations appear to
be coming from the IP of the LRP box.

I've been running this way for months, running LRP from a floppy on my
old 486-66.  Works great and keeps the riff-raff off my lan (at least,
as far as I know ;-)  You might want some logging to give you some info
on hack attempts.)  I thought configuring LRP would be hard, but there
was a nice CNET cookbook article that made it easy.

-- 
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