[ale] Linux router help needed......again

Jim Seymour bluejay at speedfactory.net
Tue Jan 11 11:27:05 EST 2005


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:49:54AM -0500, Christopher Coleman wrote:
> First thought: use ipconfig on the Windows box and check the settings 
> assigned by the DHCP server. Make sure you have the correct subnet mask 
> and default gateway settings assigned.
> 
> 
> Jim Seymour wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >General background only to shorten email. Set up a Debian Sarge box as
> >router for a WinXP box using dhcp3 and ipmasq for nat. Result: WinXp box
> >gets ip address and indicates it is connected to lan but cannot access
> >the internet. I have read every man I can find and have been unable to
> >get anywhere for days now :-( Any help or a very complete read somewhere
> >appreciated. Looking at the firewall it does not show any requests from
> >it being dropped.
> >
>

Thanks Chris,

Connection-specific DNS Suffix	:
IP Address			:192.168.7.20
Subnet Mask			:255.255.255.0
Default Gateway			:

I looked at my dhcpd.conf file and couldn't see any reference to setting
the gateway address in the examples. Could the problem be in another
place?

Thanks,

Jim Seymour



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