Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Networking the cube

[Magnus B. <mag...@al...>]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:39:20 -0600
"Kevin Sucre" <ks...@sh...> wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I have a slighty problem.  I have 2 nic cards, and i want to route
> them together.
> 
> SMC #1 as NICA
> SMC #2 as NICB
> 
> NICA ---> router(192.168.1.1) ---> cable modem ----> internet
> NICB ---> Gamecube(192.168.0.47)
> 
> NICA ip address is 192.168.1.101 gw 192.168.1.1
> NICB ip address is 192.168.0.49
> 
> oh, btw this is in a windows environment
> 
> I've tried WIN ICS and it changes the ip of NICB to 192.168.0.1, which
> then loses connection of the nbd server(root filesystem), and Gc-linux
> is broken. What i guess i need is either A) recompile kernel to load
> root filesystem from 192.168.0.1 or figure out how to route NICA, to
> NICB correctly.

I don't understand exactly what you mean by "route together". I would
guess you need masquerading in the router so you can access the internet
from the Gamecube (but it seems you are describing something else).

As Matt sugested you can also configure your router as a bridge. That
gets you the same result as if you connected the Gamecube, the router
and the cable modem to the same hub (which would leave one nic in router
unused and it would no longer be a router). With this setup you might
not be able to access the internet with the Gamecube since it doesn't
have a valid IP-address for internet access. OR the Gamecube will
allocate a valid IP-address (in the same way as the router does), but
your internet provider might not allow this.

(Or is it the cable modem that hands out the IP-addresses and also acts
as a masquerade router?)