network problem: internet sharing

[Keith Antoine]

At 12:23 PM 23/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I'd be interested in hearing your experience.  My company has invested a lot
>into Linux as a firewall/router/NAT device because we can depend on them
>better than just about anything else available.  Short of Hardware failure,
>Linux firewalls/routers/NAT devices are one of the most powerful and reliable
>on the market, being able to do complex firewalling, IDS/IDP, NAT (both
>directions), reporting, and much more.
>
>The only times I have found Linux not function well in this roll has been
>resulting from a lack of basic education.  The workstations behind it weren't
>configured for IP or there wasn't a DHCP server or the DHCP configuration
>wasn't handing out a default route correctly.
>
>No offense to you, Alma... I know I must be sounding like a biggot at the
>moment (sounding the trumpet while on the Linux list and all), but most
>problems I've found have been lack of knowledge about how a TCP/IP network
>works, including configuration and routing.  And Microsoft tries to automate
>it... but AUTO is a four-letter word, because AUTO only works part of the
>time.  And the AUTO methods tend to make you not consider some potential
>problem areas because they work sometimes.  While I'm not sure what is going
>on at Keith's I have to say that in the event of "random" or "inconsistent"
>issues, most problems I've dealt with have been a Windows problem.
>My biggest unknown here is Mandrake, since Mandrake is attempting to be a
>Microsoft competitor, they may be attempting some "automated" stuff.
>
>I'm not sure whether this was covered or not, but if you have the XP box set
>to dynamic, you need a DHCP server.  If it is hard-set to 192.168.1.2, it
>needs to have the correct netmask (most often chosen as 255.255.255.0 but if
>generated by network class, it could be 255.255.0.0), Default Gateway of
>192.168.1.2, and DNS servers need to be set to whatever the Linux box is being
>handed in DHCP.  Otherwise, you can point to mine: 69.33.10.245 and
>69.33.10.246.
>
>Again, no offense to anyone here.
>Thanks,
>Matt

Maybe you did not see my last mail to David, I have bascically chucked the 
towel on with
XP downstairs as I have experienced this before. So I went and bought a 
Netgear cable router,
now evryone is connected fine except linux <sheesh>. If I try to setup 
linux  manually it still
does not connect but it also stuffs up the XP connection seeing i am dual boot.

Skipp in windoze