running slackware as a client through a WinXP ICS host.

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 06:20 PM

Wow. This time is hot.

Read just the end of my post and try your ping again. Turn off your firewall. Get it working. Turn it back on.

FLOODS · 03-31-2004, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by vectordrake
What are you trying to do? Are you trying to access the other machine(s) or are you trying to get the Slack box on the internet? If internet access is what you want, then you need a nameserver listed. Without one, you'd have to type the IP address of every website in your browser to get it to resolve.

Easy:

just edit /etc/resolv.conf by adding this entry

Code:

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of your ISP's nameserver (or you could try your ICS gateway as well).

Barring any firewall issues, you should get websites to resolve in your browser, etc.

PS - good idea to diable Norton and re-enable it when you're actually connected properly.

I hate to sound dumb, but the nameserver is just the DNS server, right? And wouldn't I have to be able to atleast ping the host to be able to access the internet? I tried using the host as the nameserver before with no luck.

I want to be able to access the other machines (which I'm going to have to do with samba after I can atleast get a ping, right?) and access the internet.. I already have a lot of shared stuff on the host right now that would be nice if I could get to linux (drivers, tarballs, etc)

I'll hook up the slack box and edit my resolv.conf and post back with some results.

FLOODS · 03-31-2004, 06:57 PM

As for the reply of route -n, here it is.

Code:

Destination    Gateway        Genmask            Flags     Metric  Ref  Use  Iface
192.168.0.0   0.0.0.0           255.255.255.0   U            0         0         0  etho0
127.0.0.1       0.0.0.0           255.0.0.0           U            0         0         0  lo
0.0.0.0           192.168.0.1   0.0.0.0               UG          0         0         0  eth0

Well, it's not all lined up because I can't copy and paste, I have to type it out.. lol.. anyways, you get the point.. Some of that looks really wrong, just to me though.. Such as the first Destination uses gateway 0.0.0.0, that seems odd, then the last 0.0.0.0 uses 192.168.0.1..? Could be right, I don't know for sure. Any thoughts?

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by FLOODS
I hate to sound dumb, but the nameserver is just the DNS server, right?

Yes

Quote:

And wouldn't I have to be able to atleast ping the host to be able to access the internet?

Yes

Quote:

I want to be able to access the other machines (which I'm going to have to do with samba after I can atleast get a ping, right?)

Yes

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 07:08 PM

From the Slackware network config page, I found this sample rc.inet1 config. Its beautifully commented. Perhaps you may want to edit the file manually instead of relying on netconfig.

FLOODS · 03-31-2004, 07:26 PM

Edited my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file and now it looks something like..

IPADDR[0]="192.168.0.2"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
NETWORK[0]="192.168.0.2"
GATEWAY[0]="192.168.0.1"
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

and still no luck

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 07:30 PM

NETWORK[0]="192.168.0.2"

Change to 192.168.0.0

USE_DHCP[0]=""

add the word no inside the quotes:
USE_DHCP[0]="no"

see what happens. Are you doing this with Norton Firewall turned off?

FLOODS · 03-31-2004, 07:36 PM

Changed it to that and no luck :\

Is there something I have to do to restart the net services? Or something to actually start them up..? I tried reading the kernel messages when starting up and saw inetd.. found it in /usr/sbin and tried running it from there but don't know if it did anything or not.

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 07:36 PM

BTW, if you wanna see if the internet is accessable from your Slack machine through the gateway, try to ping 216.109.117.107 That's www.yahoo.com (I checked for you). If yes, then the DNS server just needs adding to /etc/resolv.conf and you'll be done.

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 07:37 PM

try ifup eth0 or ifconfig eth0 up

FLOODS · 03-31-2004, 07:38 PM

Been trying to ping google (216.239.39.99) and didn't get anything, just tried yahoo and didn't get any luck. All Destination Host Unreachables. :\

EDIT: no luck with ifconfig eth0 up (couldn't ping etc afterwards) and ifup came back with command not found.

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 07:51 PM

what does ifconfig give you for a result?

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 07:53 PM

shhot. try this too. We got too concentrated on the linux box. Try to ping the linux machine from the XP gateway as well. If the linux machine shows up, there is either a firewall problem (Winupdate enables the ICF sometimes) or a config problem with the Slack machine (but it looks okay)

FLOODS · 03-31-2004, 07:55 PM

When I run ifconfig eth0 up it just starts eth0 (doesn't say anything, but I know it's doing it back there) and just ifconfig gives me the loopback and eth0.. eth0 looks like this

Code:

eth0
       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:A1:22:7A:2A
       inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
       UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
       RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
       TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
       collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
       RX bytes:1855 (1.8Kb) TX bytes:1890 (1.8Kb)
       Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec00

vectordrake · 03-31-2004, 08:05 PM

No dropped packets. Its communicating. Seems dumb, but try

Code:

route add default gw 192.168.0.1 dev eth0

and see if that was the problem (shouldn't be)