RE: [coLinux-users] Networking/XP issues

[Ryan K. <rya...@co...>]

Brendan,

I had a similar problem (I have XP and a router).  Bridging the
connections work very well for me.  I bridged the TAP device and the
network card on my laptop that XP uses for its connection (I actually
have a built in wired Ethernet card and a PCMCIA wireless card - the
wireless card is the one that is actually used, so it is the one to
bridge).  My bridge is set up to be DHCP.  I left the gateway setting in
colinux as 192.168.0.1 so that it actually points to the router.
Internet connection sharing is not enabled.  Everything works well.
Bridging is slightly voodooish to me, so I was surprised at how well it
worked on the first try after I had failed at NAT for a while.

Let me know if you want me to look up any other settings or try to
remember any other details of how it works with my router and XP.

Ryan


-----Original Message-----
From: col...@li...
[mailto:col...@li...] On Behalf Of Brendan
J Simon
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:05 PM
To: col...@li...
Subject: [coLinux-users] Networking/XP issues

I'm a first time user and have just installed the 0.6.1 release.  I can 
get it to run in the terminal mode but I haven't had any success with 
the networking :(

I have XP and from the docs I've read it seems that Bridged networking 
is the best method as NAT has a few limitations.  Yes/No ???

One of the problems I have is that my firewall (and DHCP server) is 
192.168.0.1.  When I try to share the XP network conenction for other 
users it eventually gives me an error as it tries to assign 192.168.0.1 
for the shared address (or the attaching interface).  Does MS hardcode 
this value in????
If so then this sucks.  What if one has more than one machine in this 
type of configuration on the local network ???  It doesn't scale.
Maybe this is only intended for machines that connect direct to an ISP 
(eg. machine with modem, pstn or dsl, etc)???

Anyway, I can bridge the TAP interface and the 1GB Broadcomm interface 
but the TAP interface always has the red cross on it, even after I've 
started coLinux.

So, has anyone got coLinux working with networking on XP using bridged
mode?
What about if another host has 192.168.0.1 on the network?
Do I need to share my real interface?

Any ideas, suggestions or thoughts muchly appreciated.

Cheers,
Brendan Simon.



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