connecting two machines with a router, no internet connection
Hi, As the info below will show, I know nothing at all about networking and, until last week, never needed to. I have a simple router which worked fine when connecting two PCs running XPpro. Now I'm trying to use it to connect two workstations, each running SuSE 10.0 (one 32- and one 64-bit), but there is no connection to the internet or to any isp. (Yes, I know I could do this with a crossover cable, but I shall intermittently have network connection soon.) I tried assigning one machine a local address of 10.0.0.1, making it the dhcp server, but no joy. There seems to be no way to use Yast to create the connection that I want. Any suggestions? jim bennett
On 11/2/05, James P. Bennett
Hi, As the info below will show, I know nothing at all about networking and, until last week, never needed to.
I have a simple router which worked fine when connecting two PCs running XPpro. Now I'm trying to use it to connect two workstations, each running SuSE 10.0 (one 32- and one 64-bit), but there is no connection to the internet or to any isp. (Yes, I know I could do this with a crossover cable, but I shall intermittently have network connection soon.)
I tried assigning one machine a local address of 10.0.0.1, making it the dhcp server, but no joy. There seems to be no way to use Yast to create the connection that I want. Any suggestions?
jim bennett
Assign 10.0.0.1 to one of the machines. 10.0.0.2 to the other. And shut down the firewall, or at least enable the ports you need on both machines, so they can communicate. By default all ports are closed. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Just plug the "Digital Modem" or whatever you use for your net connection, into the Router in the WAN port, then while the machines are turned off, plug the cables in from the NIC into the Router.... Would be good knowing more about this, I for example have this set up: I have a Router / Digital Modem form the cable company. That's plugged into the WAN port of my D-Link Router. This machine is plugged into the router with Cat5e Cable The machine next to it is the same, right inro the router on a free port. The machine next to that is as well. Then I have another port on the Router which I plugged in a Cisco switch with Cat6 cable. The laptop and my Mom's computer are on the switch. Everything is online You don't need a switch fo course to dot his, but that's how I have mine set up. I then logged into the Router and set it up (RTFM) and then I installed SUSE on the machines and it used DHCP by default and when the install finished they were on. You don't usually NEED to assign IPs by hand. -Allen.
James P. Bennett wrote:
Hi, As the info below will show, I know nothing at all about networking and, until last week, never needed to.
I have a simple router which worked fine when connecting two PCs running XPpro. Now I'm trying to use it to connect two workstations, each running SuSE 10.0 (one 32- and one 64-bit), but there is no connection to the internet or to any isp. (Yes, I know I could do this with a crossover cable, but I shall intermittently have network connection soon.)
I tried assigning one machine a local address of 10.0.0.1, making it the dhcp server, but no joy. There seems to be no way to use Yast to create the connection that I want. Any suggestions?
From the Linux point of view, there's no difference beween a crossover and hub or switch. In Yast, configure each NIC for a static address, such as 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 and see what happens.
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