Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

From: Björn Johansson (bjorn.johansson_at_4a-consulting.com)
Date: 07/27/05

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To: Christian Henz <christian.henz@gmail.com>

    At 00:03 2005-07-27, you wrote:
    >On 7/26/05, Björn Johansson <bjorn.johansson@4a-consulting.com> 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? :-/

    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.)

    Perhaps I should have excluded "dev" in the command line.
    Hmm... It should not be so hard to get this working!! Right?

    Kind regards
    Björn

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