Hello, On Mon, 02 Mar 2009, Sahid Khan (সাহিদ) wrote: > I use a CentOS desktop machine with BSNL (DataOne) to access Internet. > I am trying to set up a LAN in my home so that I can access Internet > from my Laptop which runs on Ubuntu 8.10.
Your diagram arrived like this: __________________ __________________ | | | | ---------------|192.168.1.30 | | | Internet | eth0 | LAN | | | 192.52.1.1 |------------------------------ | 192.52.1.2 | | | eth1 | | -------------------------------- -------------------------------- CentOS 5.1 Ubuntu 8.10 You probably used tabs instead of spaces! As it turns out it may not matter. > As you see, my CentOS machine has got two network cards: eth1 is > connected to LAN and eth0 is connected to Internet. I use PPPoE to up > the Internet. Below is the ifconfig output of the CentOS machine: > [sa...@serein ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig -a > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:C0:51:E9:3B > inet addr:192.168.1.30 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:91:7A:30:92 > inet addr:192.52.1.1 Bcast:192.52.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:117.194.193.143 P-t-P:117.194.192.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 This output shows that it is "ppp0" which is your WAN port. This seems likely since PPP-over-Ethernet is the way in which most BSNL DataOne links work. This means that your outgoing port is ppp0 *not* eth0. Secondly, (but less importantly) how did you pick 192.52.x.x as your LAN IP address? I don't think this is a good idea. What if there is a machine on the internet with an address in this range to which you want to connect? You should only use the "LAN only" IP addresses like 192.168.x.x for your lan. Something like 192.168.7.x/255.255.255.0 should be adequate for your LAN. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc