Jason A. Pattie wrote:
> I've successfully downloaded the latest pre-release from the
> SourceForge site and gotten it setup along with the 1GB image file for
> Debian. I found an e-mail on the devel mailing list detailing how to
> setup the TAP device to work with Internet Connection Sharing. It
> also mentioned about how to setup /etc/network/interfaces and
> /etc/hosts so lo was configured properly and localhost could be
> ping'ed, etc. I got all that working except for there seems to be a
> connectivity issue between Windows and Linux. I can ping the Linux
> side from Windows just fine. ifconfig under Windows gives me
> 192.168.0.1 for the TAP connection and my network card under Windows
> seems to be retaining its LAN IP address. On the Linux side, I get
> 192.168.0.40 for eth0, but I cannot ping 192.168.0.1. I can't figure
> out what to do next to get this to work. Maybe the TAP driver is not
> working correctly? I don't have any firewalling or port filtering in
> place under Windows that I can tell, except that I am running
> ZoneAlarm. Could this be causing interference? I've selected 'Yes'
> whenever it attempts to do the pings or other connection attempts.
> I'll disable it and try again and let you know.
Nevermind. ZoneAlarm was the issue. I can now get to the Interrnet
from Linux. Hmm. I don't know how to make that work, but I guess I
kind of care, since Windows still needs protection even though Linux is
now running on top of it.
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