by Sorry for the length of this message.
I have Windows 98 PC that is acting as an internet sharing host for my home
network. I am running SyGate on this PC. One of the Intel 10/100 cards is
connected to my DSL modem and the other is connected to the second PC.
The second PC is set up with Windows 98, the BeOS, and Linux-Mandrake 6.1.
On the second PC I am able to use the internet connection sharing
successfully in Windows 98 and Be but I can not connect to the internet at
all when I'm in Linux. I have tried reinstalling four times with both
Linux-Mandrake and Caldera Open Linux 2.3. All attempts with the same
outcome. Linux works great otherwise.
Here is the configuration:
PC #1 (Windows 98 HOST)
NIC #1 attached to DSL modem is set up to use DHCP
NIC #2 static IP address of 192.168.0.1
PC #2 (Linux, Be, Windows CLIENT)
IP -- 192.168.0.2
Gateway -- 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask -- 255.255.255.0
DNS -- 192.168.0.1
I have used the above configuration for Windows, Be, and Linux
Whenever I attempt to use Netscape in Linux I get the following error
message: "Warning: The following hostnames are unknown: home.netscape.com,
home6.netscape.com. Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If
your site uses a non-root name server, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS
environment variable to point at the appropriate name server.
I don't even know how to attempt to do that. Thanks in advance for any
suggestions. One other point - I have loaded Linux on the "host" PC and was
able to get internet access when configuring the NIC attached to the DSL
modem via DHCP.
Todd Gaslin