Re: first gateway box

"Bobby R. Cox" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
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What is your output when you type ifconfig ?  Can you ping the gateway?

Bobby C.

daniel wrote:

>hello all
>i'm still learning the whole linux thing and at the moment i'm trying to set
>up a gateway box here @home.  can someone fill me in on how to configure my
>conf.d/net file?  is that the only one i have to edit?
>
>at the moment, i have this:
>
>iface_eth0="xx.yy.120.254 broadcast xx.yy.120.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>iface_eth1="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>gateway="eth0/xx.yy.120.1"
>
>that's it. outside of the commented out lines in that file, that's all i've
>got.  what'd i miss?  'cause at present, i can ping my external ip
>(xx.yy.120.254) and my local ip (127.0.0.1) but i still can't ping anything
>in the "real" world.
>
>i could really use your help here :)
>
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