arguing with a hub, and losing

redchief

main rig is abit nf7s with amd xp 2400
DWL 530 wireless card that links to linksys access point.
to add folding machines i have hung a 4 port linksys hub from the onboard network port on the ABIT board using a crossover cable. OS= XP Pro.
I have a couple other old systems I want to have just as folding boxes.
I have an additional XP OS and a couple copies of Red hat.
I'm agreeable to whichever system would work, at the moment i have 1 XP box and one Linux box.
the problem seem to be getting the main rig to talk pleasantly to the hub.
I have addresses set dynamically, and tried with athenticaltion on and off.
i have tried setting static addresses like 198.162.5.5.
I have also walked thru the network set up and tried bridging networks

any suggestions?

Tex

Don't use a crossover cable. Thats only for NIC to NIC's or uplinks on some switchs/hubs.

Use a regular cable.

Tex

redchief

I am using the "uplink" button on the hub, but, I'm easy, I'll switch back to a regular cable. Seem like the smaller the box the bigger pain it can be.

thanks

redchief

well, I switched to a normal cable
set "share this connection " to ON
the tbird box seems happy and connected
go the box #3
not happy, doesn't like the Nic card, won't install???
switch the NIC cards, the "defective card" works fine in the Tbird , Dlink
now the linksys card is cranky in box #3
the resolution:
Take drasnor to dinner.
apprently win XP allows you to share , but only once,
by using a static ip address,
the Box #3 has an IP conflict. this is microsoft's way to encourage you to buy xp server, ( not gonna happen) so
time to switch to Unix, unless there is another workaround.

I always did like penguins.

Just a guess on our part, we could be wrong.

sound plausable??

rm -r xp !!

Tex

redchief wrote:

apprently win XP allows you to share , but only once,
by using a static ip address, the Box #3 has an IP conflict. this is microsoft's way to encourage you to buy xp server,

sound plausable??

Sorry No

Tex

redchief

Guess I'll just put a hat on my folding machines and move on.

Thanks Tex

muddocktor

Is it XP Home or XP Pro you are trying this with?

redchief

xp pro

muddocktor

Try enabling ICS on your wireless connection and see if you can get multiple boxes to share it. I'm not using a wireless connection, but I do use a sat connection to get all my rigs on the net. The master computer that runs the sat connection has the sat connection using ICS and letting it autormatically assign the IP's and the master computer is connected to my 8 port dlink switch, which the other computers are connected to. I have up to 8 computers connecting through this one connection, so ICS should work just fine for you too.

EDIT: BTW my master computer is also using XP Pro SP2. All my other rigs are using either XP Pro or Win2K Pro

drasnor

I'm looking at it now, essentially what he's got is a 4-port hub with his NF7-S, TBird, P3, and this Linux machine I'm working on hooked up. All machines show established connections (the LED's on the hub and the backs of the cards are on), but only one machine at a time can pull an IP from the NF7-S. The NF7-S is using Windows XP Pro SP2 and has ICS running on the wireless connection.

I tried powering up the NF7-S, letting it get to Windows desktop and then powering up the other machines round-robin (letting each one load fully before going to the next one). In every case, the only one to pull an IP from the NF7-S is the first one powered up.

If it helps, here's the IP's for the networks:
wireless (WAN): 192.168.1.x
wired (LAN): 192.168.0.x

-drasnor

Tex

Can you not just assign static IP's?

And I am not saying it has not changed but no version of Linux I have used can see the internet with ICS. You need a router. Either software or hardware.

Tex

drasnor

We're building a Linux iptables NAT/firewall router, so this won't be a problem for much longer I guess.

-drasnor