On 7/27/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 00:03 2005-07-27, you wrote: > >On 7/26/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I can't afford to buy a router right now, so that's out of the question. > > > I have made progress! Now I can transfer files > > > through ftp from the pc to mac at the > > > same time as the pc has access to the internet. > > > > > > To make the mac share the internet through > > the pc, to make that work, people > > > have told me that I should use the pc as a gateway. So perhaps I need to > > > create an static ip for gateway on the pc and > > then I tell the mac to use that > > > gateway address in the network. > > > > > > >What IP does the network card in the PC have now? > > 192.168.0.1 > and netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > From your previous mail I see that the Mac is on 192.168.0.246 with > >netmask 255.255.255.0. Since you can already "talk" to the PC, that > >means the PC's card is on 192.168.0.???. That is the IP you want to > >set as the gateway on your Mac! To test this, use "route": > > > >route add default gw 192.168.0.??? dev eth0 > > > >Now you should be able to reach the Internet... try: > > > >ping 194.109.137.218 > > > >which is www.debian.org. > > > >If it doesn't work, check the connection sharing options in Windows XP. > > > >Once this basic connection works, you can set it all up proper in > >/etc/network/interfaces. > > > >cheers, > >Christian > > I don't understand how the Mac can use the internet connection on the PC > when there's another network card in the PC which is connected to the > ethernet modem? Maybe I don't haveto understand? :-/ >
You want the PC to act as your gateway/router for your local network, and your local network knows your PC as 192.168.0.1 Packets from the local network arrive at 192.168.0.1 and then Windows acts as a router and figures out where they are supposed to go. If they go to an internet address, it sends them out to your modem. > I understand that by using the PC:s IP as a gateway to the Mac, they should > be able to use the same internet connection, but it still don't work! > When I ping: www.debian.org as example I get the IP address but the > system reports 100% packet loss, so it's not working, yet... > Of course I also tried your ip numbers and I got the same result. > (100% packet loss.) > This seems strange, because DNS lookup seems to work already... please send me the contents of /etc/network/interfaces, /etc/resolv.conf and the output when you run "route" without any parameters. > Perhaps I should have excluded "dev" in the command line. > It shouldn't be the cause of your problem. > Hmm... It should not be so hard to get this working!! Right? > Normally not ;-) cheers, Christian
