Re: Setting up network

The computer has only one NIC card. The DSL modem is connected to a router that is connected to all the computers on the network including the linux machine. All computers are set to acquire an IP address automatically.

Don't know how to ping with linux and how to get the IP address of the other computers which are a mixture of windows OS's

I do not know how to get the info of the output of the irconfig -a and netstat -nr. Like I said I am a total newbie on Linux.

Thanks

ml@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hey Bill,

I just got a FC2 computer up and running. It is attached to a small home network which is attached to the internet by DSL. The linux computer connects to the internet and operates perfectly. My problem
is that it does not see any of the computer on the net work. How can
I configure the computer to see the other computers.

first check if you have two network interface cards. One should be
connected with the DSL-Modem and the other should be connected to the
switch/hub of your home-network.

The later should have an ip address of your home network and should
share the netmask of all home machines.

Now ping the other home network boxes from your linux pc. It should
work. If not, please give us more information like the output of
"ifconfig -a" and the output of "netstat -nr".

HTH
Volker