> I've been trying to setup IP masquerading on my linux box at home to allow
> a Windows machine to access a cable modem. I can't seem get the two
> machines to talk to each other though. The linux box (RH5.0) has two new
> NetGear FA310TX cards and the windows machine has a Kingston NE2000 ISA
> card. I'm not able to ping the windows machine from the linux box or vice
> versa. The cables are known to be good. I set the windows machine to IP
> 192.168.1.10 Mask 255.255.255.0 and Gateway 192.168.1.1. Can someone offer
> some troubleshooting advice? Thanks
[snip]
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:A3:9E:00
> inet addr:24.128.80.101 Bcast:24.128.81.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:945 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:173 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xfc80
-^-
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:A3:54:31
> inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0
-^-
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xfc00
-^-
The route output looks fine. The fact that both cards are on IRQ 9 and
eth1 is showing `TX ... errors:8' doesn't look so good.
You should configure the cards to use different IRQs. How to do this
is specific to each type of card.
-- Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu