Please help! I can connect my portable PC to my desktop via ethernet cards (eth0) and use ping, NFS, samba etc.
Now, after re-reading Net-HOWTO and following the examples in it, I've been trying to set my desktop and its eth0 and ppp0 connections as a router for my portable in order to use email and the internet on it by means of ethernet connection. In a nutshell, the first 'extremely simple' routing configuration in the HOWTO! Even though I've followed the easy instructions using the command 'route add..' etc, it simply doesn't work in my case. Here it is the basic configuration info On both system woody with 2.4.13 kernel On my desktop (the would-be router) Eth0 192.168.10.5 (desktop as an alias) # route Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 212.210.33.130 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.10.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default desktop 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 On my portable PC (the only client) # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default desktop 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.10.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 I can of course ping the eth0 on both sides using also their aliases but...... the result when I try to ping a working internet address from my client is as follows: #ping 195.110.96.65 # PING 195.110.96.65 (195.110.96.65): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote 195.110.96.65 64 chars, ret=-1 What's wrong with it? Vittorio
