Problemsconfiguring Firestarter

[Pasha]

Leandro Melo wrote:

>Hi.
>I just intalled Firestarter on my Fedora 2. The goal is to share my
>Internet Fedora connection to my other computer at home that runs
>Windows XP.
>I followed the instructions at the Firestarter web site. I configured
>my Internet connection with the eth0 device (naturally, this is my
>hardaware device, but I'm using default's fedora network manager in
>which I have a logical ppp0 device - I called it eth0MyConn -  that
>points to the eth0 hardware device). I also configured in Firestarter
>the other device I'd like to share the connection with, which is eth1.
>I configured it to use dhcp as it's suggested. The device eth1 is
>connected to my other computer that runs Windows XP.
>After doing the necessary configuration I finished Firestarter
>installation normally.
>The problems are:
>
>1 -  When I try to start Firestarter (or when it starts by itself when
>I dial up) it gives an error that "eth0 is not ready... check if the
>connection is active". The point is that my connection is active, I
>can use the internet normally, but Firestarter gives this error.
>
>2 - If I try to use the connection stabilished in Fedora from my
>Windows XP, it doesn't work. In other words, the connection that is
>supposed to be shared is not working, my Windows XP can't see the
>connection.
>
>Can anyone help me out with these problems. I'm very new to linux.
>
>p.s.: I'll also try to send this message to firestarter mailling list,
>but if anyone could help me out also here, I'd appreciate.
>
>  
>
You need to configure ppp0 as your device connected to internet.
If you configure eth1 as using DHCP in firestarter, you also need to set 
up DHCP server on your FC2 box. If all you have is 2 computers, you 
probably don't need it. Just configure your machines with static IP 
addresses ( like 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2).