RE: Network Setup - HOW TO

I had my router with IP address 172.19.56.218 and linux machine
172.19.60.11 connected with a normal cable. I had the system ping the
router with ethereal running.
Ethereal captured only the ARP packets, there were no ARP reply and on
the console of the system I would get "Destination Host unreachable". 
Have enclosed the ethereal capture...
Atit

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Likely [mailto:glikely@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 12:07 PM
To: Atit_Shah
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Network Setup - HOW TO

On 5/8/05, Atit_Shah [off-list ref] wrote:

My company uses the 172.19.x.x IP addresses, I want a PC with
192.168.x.x IP address to access the company network via a router. I
have a router running Linux and having 2 Ethernet ports. I configured
the systems in the following 2 ways:

So, two subnets:
Eth0 on subnet 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0
Eth1 on subnet 172.19.0.0/255.255.0.0

1. Eth0 (LAN port) - 172.19.56.218
   Eth1 (WAN port) - 172.19.56.219
   Single System   - 192.168.100.10 - IP Address
                           172.19.56.218  - Gateway
                           172.19.56.218  - DNS

This is wrong.  IP address for Eth0 must be on the 192.168.0.0/16 subnet

2. Eth0 (LAN port) - 192.168.100.20
   Eth1 (WAN port) - 172.19.56.219
   Single System   - 192.168.100.10 - IP Address
                           192.168.100.20 - Gateway
                           192.168.100.20 - DNS

This is correct, but the DNS server does not have to be your router.

But I am not able to ping from the router to my single system in

either

way.
How should I configure router to make this possible for the 2 networks
to communicate?

Is you netmask set right?  Does /sbin/route show sane IP routes?  What
do you see on the wire? (Use Ethereal on a third computer).  If you
cannot ping then you've got a fundamental flaw in your configurations.
 Get this working before worrying about DHCP or routing.

The second question is how to run DHCP on my router so it can receive

a

dynamic IP and assign dynamic IP when I power my router?

You need to run both dhcpd and dhcpcd.  dhcpd to assign IP to your
client.  dhcpcd to get an IP from the network.

It sounds like you need to brush up on your IP networking knowledge w/
linux.  Go look at the howtos on www.tldp.org.  Specifically on
networking and DHCP.  You should get this stuff working on a regular
PC w/ 2 network cards running linux first before trying to get it
going on your embedded board.

Also, as I asked before, please include relevant output logs with your
posts and I strongly recommend sniffing the Ethernet traffic with a
tool like Ethereal.

g.



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