Home network setup

[Holden on]

Hi all, I'm new linux use and would appreciate any assistance given. I've been trying to set up a home network without success that would look like this, refer to pix. When the gateway is running on Fedora, it can access the net but the other pc 's cannot and it does not recognise the other nic. any idea's????. hope this works!!!

[pwca]

Go to: http://tinypic.com/

Post your picture(s) then record the various url code they give you for your picture(s).

Come back to this thread and post the "Direct Link for Layouts" code they give you for each of the picture(s) you desire to show us explaining your situation.

Someone will be able to get back to you then to address your trouble.

[Holden on]

Sorry about pix being upside down . Should be right way up now and thanks for info on attaching pix.
I'm now running F5 on the gateway pc but cannot still get to talk to other pc on network. There was no prob when gateway was running XP. The gateway has F5 on a 20Gb hdd and XP on 4.5Gb hdd(two physical drives and F5 won't allow dual boot. The study pc will have two drives when Everything hopefully is running smoothly.]http://i39.tinypic.com/2hgzqm1.jpg

[fused]

Hi Holden:

I have FC5 on my box too and have other Winners boxes as well.

Judging from what I can see, and this may not be what you wish to do, and there maybe other ways get around this.

Put your router before your fedora box, with your fedora box as just another cable direct from the router. So your router would now have four cables out, one each to one tower.

My particular problem is my Fedora box can't seem to transmit to the printer, which is connected to the router. I am not certain if this is a FC5 qwerk or whether I have some setting wrong.

Lack of knowledge is a powerful thing.

Fused

[Hoyt]

Holden,

I don't claim to be an expert SOHO LAN design, but I am curious
about your proposed layout. From your diagram, I believe you wish
to use your existing (kind of slow) Pentium 3 box as combination
print server and WAN/LAN gateway; presumably with ip masquerading
for the other hosts on the LAN. Aside from these functions, are
there other uses for this box that cannot be carried out on just
as well on one of the others?

I would replace that box with an inexpensive router (perhaps
including a wireless access point). That is far less costly to
operate continuously. Your printer, of course, would move
somewhere else.

Now to remark on your original question, I have two NIC's
built into my MB, probably to allow the gateway function like
you've proposed. I have always been able to have both recognized
by all versions of Fedora.


Regards,
Hoyt

[Holden on]

Thx, will prob end up doin that

[tehchad]

hey holden,
I (and I'm not you) would go get a wireless (for when friends come visit) router to put between your network and the modem. (Wireless G or N, doesn't really matter too much) This will give you an easement from your headache! Yay!
Since you want to connect all of your computers to the net, the routers on the market today will do that easily for you. Most of them auto-configure too (although you will want to secure the wireless and put an admin password on it). It's much cheaper than the man hours will cost you.
The reason I recomment this router option is that a hub/switch won't do any real address resolution. Routers have (afaik ALL routers have this) a DHCP server in them. It sounds like this is what you need. (AND!!! It's a lot cheaper than having a computer for this!)