Question about connecting to the net through a winxp machine

[Scott Burns]

Sponger wrote:

>/sbin/ifconfig results
>Eth0  Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:29:82:22:3B
>	UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>	RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>	TX packets:71 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>	Collisions:0 txqueuelon:1000
>	RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5455 (5.3 Kb)
>	Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000
>
>Eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:29:82:22:3B
>	 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>	 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>	 RX packets:0 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>	 TX packets:71 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>	 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>	 TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5455 (5.3 Kb)
>	 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000
>
>  
>
Never seen one like this before - it looks like you got the interface up 
then added an alias or something...

What is the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

>/sbin/rout -n   results
>
>Kernel IP routing table
>Destination		Gateway	Genmask		Flags Metric Ref	Use
>Iface
>192.168.1.0		0.0.0.0	255.255.255.0	U	0	  0	0
>eth0 
>169.254.0.0		0.0.0.0	255.255.0.0		U	0	  0
>0	lo
>127.0.0.0		0.0.0.0	255.0.0.0		U	0	  0
>0	lo
>  
>
You have no default route.  Log in as root ans type "route add default 
gw 192.168.1.1"

This should have happened automatically and should not stop you pinging 
the winxp box.

>
>/sbin/iptables -L  results
>
>  
>
Log in as root and try again.

>The msg I get when I ping is this:
>192.168.1.2   icmp_seq=1  Destination Host Unreachable
>
>Over and over again,  but what I don't get is the ip of the linux box is
>192.168.1.2, and the xp box is 192.168.1.1 and I typed "pint 192.168.1.1" in
>the console and ^^^ that's what I got!
>	 
>
Yes.  .2 is the one having the trouble and returning the error.  It's 
normal.



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