Dumb Question

[Brian Kelsay]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Rossiter [mailto:rossiter at discoverynet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:30 PM
> To: Brian Kelsay; Gene Dascher; Kclug
> Subject: Re: Dumb Question
> 
> 
> On the other boxes on your network you need to have them 
> point to the Linux
> box (internal side NIC) as the gateway (e.g.. 192.168.0.1 or 
> 10.0.0.1) and use
> the DNS addresses that you were given by Comcast (24.16.152.15 and
> 24.16.152.17).
> From: Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at askpioneer.com>
> 
> 
> They didn't give me any DNS entries Brian, Comcast 
> authenticates by machine
> name using DHCP.  I issued ipconfig /all on the Win2K side of 
> this dual boot
> box and got the DNS IP's.
> 

That's funny, I got a pink sheet that looked like a work order, containing
the DNS info, an IP (Static, in case of problems I guess, which is what I
always get from them through DHCP), user name, computer name (which I had to
give the router, CJxxxx-a) and I think that is it.
Brian Kelsay

> I entered them in the DNS properties of the Win95 box behind 
> the RH 7.0
> gateway, using the internal NIC address (10.0.0.1) as the 
> gateway. No ping,
> no http from the Win9x box.
> 
> That's where I sit.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric
>