On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:56:21AM +0000, david_pettersson@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi, > > Before my old computer burned I used it as a firewall or gateway to the internet. Then I had a modem and a networking card and everything worked. > > Now I have two networking cards, one buildin in the motherboard (eth0) and one in a PCI slot (eth1). When I tried to do the same to give my WinXP box access to the internet I couldn't get it right. When I connect to internet using eth0 everything is fine. When I start eth1 to the WinXP box it works, but then I have no contact with the internet thru eth0. > To get contact with the internet again I have to stop eth1 and restart eth0. Does anyone have a clue? > > The internet company used DNS to assign network adresses and the WinXP has adress 172.16.0.2 > /sbin/ipconfig gives: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:38:BC:53 > inet addr:213.114.28.238 Bcast:213.114.28.255 Mask:255.255.255.128 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:3820 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:6080 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:1871476 (1.7 Mb) TX bytes:840285 (820.5Kb) > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x7800 > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:4F:1E:0B:2A > inet addr:172.16.0.1 Bcast:172.16.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:759 (759.0 b) TX bytes:30639 (29.9 Kb) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:2460 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:2460 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:1943908 (1.8 Mb) TX bytes:1943908 (1.8 Mb) > Either the dhcp client for your company overwrites the /etc/resolv.conf file for name resolution, or it's adding/replacing the default route for the internet. Check the file /etc/resolv.conf and report the output of /sbin/route -n, please. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.