Question about connecting to the net through a winxp machine

[Sponger]

I cant ping the xp machine....how do I turn on masquerading on xp?

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From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On
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Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Question about connecting to the net through a winxp machine

Sponger wrote:

>How the hell do I do this?  I have the xp machine setup with two nics, one
>for the broadband, the other for the network, and I have the fedora machine
>setup with a static IP and a gateway address of the network address of the
>xp machine.  What am I missing?
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>Thanks guys..this would really help  out a lot!
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Can you ping the winxp machine?

Use /usr/sin/traceroute www.google.com to see the path your packets 
take.  If DNS does not work use 216.239.57.99

Make sure masquerading is turned on on the winxp machine - IMHO it's the 
most likely mistake.


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Scott Burns
Mirrabooka Systems

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