Hello, I hope someone can shed some light on to this because I'm at a loss.
I have a small LAN going on at home: a Debian box acting as a firewall (external interface gets its IP address from DHCP and the internal address is 192.168.0.1); a Linux/Windows box that has no problems (only has one NIC in it); and then my workstation. My workstation is a Linux Mandrake 8.1 box with two NICs in it. The IP addresses assigned to the NICs are 192.168.0.10 (eth0) and 192.168.0.11 (eth1). Class C mask. This is the problem: when I have both NICs enabled network access is a total joke. I can get around the internal subnet just fine, but the firewall laughs at me when I try to get out to the Internet. Not only that, my whole system slows down considerably when both NICs are enabled. If I disable eth1 I can get out just fine and my workstation is much more responsive. I don't think this is a problem with the firewall because I am letting everything on 192.168.0.0/24 out. But I am at a loss for words as to why this happens when I have both network cards enabled. My modus operandi for this is to run VMware. I have set up a bridged networking configuration where the virtual ethernet adapter is bridged to eth1. OF COURSE, when I have both ethernet adapters enabled AND I start up a virtual machine (with an IP address in the 192.168.0.50 range) it works flawlessly. If eth1 is disabled, no networking in my virtual machine (which makes sense...) There is something that I am not understanding here. Can someone please shed some light on this before I go insane? Thank-you oh so much... -Chris
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