Internet isn't accessible after update

[Erik Hemdal]

> From: akonstam at trinity.edu
> Subject: Re: Internet isn't accessible after update
> To: David Ganger <dganger at comcast.net>

> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:06:44PM -0500, David Ganger wrote:
> > Yes the internet did work before i used the up2date feature, It had windows 
> > me and i wiped that off the hard drive and installed Fedora Core 3. My 
> > internet connection comes into my xp machine and then is shared to all the 
> > other computers. So I have two nic cards one is hooked up to the cable 
> > modem, and the other is sent to the router, and that card is shared so 
> > others can access it. I hope that helps my friend helped me set it up so i 
> > am not totally sure of all the lingo or how much more you need to know, 
> > Thanks for the help.
> > Dave
> Well call me crazy but depending on the number of machines we are
> talking about something seems backwards to me. In most cases you would
> connect the router to the cable modem and all the rest of your
> machines are connected to the router. Routers are designed to be
> routers. You are using your XP machine as a router and XP is not
> normally designed to be a router, so I assume some extra software or

You're not crazy.  But that being said, XP does have a wizard that will
bridge two NICs and enable Windows Firewall on an XP box.  You get here
just by choosing to set up a network. As I recall, the prompts in the
wizard indicate that this is the only proper way to set up a network.
Using the wizard, there's no choice that lets you simply connect the XP
box to a router.

If you are setting up a second NIC or trying to fix a problem, it's easy
to get this done by accident.

Erik

> configuration is required. All that is unnecessary. At home I have dsl
> (but others are doing the same with cable modem service) The dsl goes
> to a modem router box (but these boxes could be separate) and two
> other machines are connected physically to the router. The router is
> also capable of wireless routing so  a third machine (running XP by
> the way) gets its internet through a wireless card.
> That is the way I would  configure your system.