[dundee] broadband in newport

[Mark Harrigan]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:24:06PM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:19, David R. Baird wrote:
> > Time to delurk I reckon. Yes, I'm in the Fair City. 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > The setup will be an XP box connected to a cable modem, and to a 
> > hub which will feed the Linux box. 
> > 
> > I guess I'm asking, what settings do I need to know about to get 
> > the network working, once I have Linux installed?
> > 
> 
> Assuming your cable provider will just provide you with 1 dynamically
> allocated IP. You will need to setup IP masquarading (a subset of
> Network Address Translation) on the windows box (windows probably calls
> it something lame).
> 
Internet Connection Sharing

> You windows box will get its assigned IP on the cable modem interface.
> On its other interface, which will connect to the hub, you will assign
> an IP address from one of the reserved address ranges:
> 
> 	1	Class A		10.x.x.x
> 	15	Class B's	172.16.x.x --> 172.31.x.x
> 	255	Class C's	192.168.0.x --> 192.168.255.x
> 
> 
> e.g
> 
> 172.16.0.1
> 
> on your Linux box you would assign it (the nic, eth0, probably) the
> address 172.16.0.2 and the gateway address would be the address of the
> windows box's private address, in this case 172.16.0.1
> 

Windows actually makes this even easier, you don't need to specify any
ip's as Internet Connection Sharing will enable DHCP to automagically
configure any connected system. 

I'm not quite sure as to where Mandrake stores network info but in
Debian /etc/network/interfaces is the appropriate file. Look for a
lines something like 

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.20
        netmask 255.255.255.0

and change to 

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp.


Mark