Re: [coLinux-devel] Getting networking to work

[Jason A. P. <pat...@pc...>]

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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