Networking problem beetwine windows and kubuntu 8.10

[mousewho]

I've installed Kubuntu 8.10 on my PC, I am totally new with Linux operating systems.
My motherboard has two Ethernet ports eth0 and eth1, through one, I'm connected via cable modem to the Internet, and I use the second port to connect directly to one windows PC with twisted-pair cable.

Internet is working nice on Kubuntu, but windows PC can't connect through its gateway wich is set to 192.168.0.1. Notification on Kubuntu PC says that the eth1 is disconnected. I tried to set up manually IP address for eth1, but that didn't work. I don't know what else to try.

So my problem is, making my second eth1 connection on Kubuntu PC active so that windows PC could connect to Internet.

Thanks in advance!!

[Lazydog]

Try a cross over cable.

[mousewho]

Try a cross over cable.

Sorry, I haven't expressed my self correctly, yes my computers are connected with crossover cable. Twisted pair cable is something else !

So that is not the problem. I think there's something in the settings, but I can't find them.

[Lazydog]

On the Kunbuntu machine run the following:

ifconfig
route -n

What is the ip address of the windows machine?

[mousewho]

Well, I discovered that, Kubuntu doesn't see two separate ethernet ports, it sets them both to the same values, same IP, DNS ... When I try to set manually IP for a local network on eth1 :
IP : 192.168.0.1, SubMask: 255.255.255.0 wich was my setting on an windows earlier, before I installed Kubuntu, it reset the values, and sets the status of the connection to "disconnected" (on eth0) . It seems that, Kubuntu doesn't know how to route packets.

Is there any cure for this problem or I'll have to buy a switch, or a multi-port router?

[mousewho]

~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:8c:cf:80:25
          inet addr:94.189.170.240  Bcast:94.189.171.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:8cff:fecf:8025/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:75603 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6346557 (6.3 MB)  TX bytes:391848 (391.8 KB)
          Interrupt:221 Base address:0x8000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:8832 (8.8 KB)  TX bytes:8832 (8.8 KB)

~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
94.189.170.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.254.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         94.189.170.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

this is what comes up.

[mousewho]

Windows machines IP is 192.168.0.2.

[Lazydog]

Check the network config files for eth1 and ensure that it is not set to dhcp. sound like they are both set to DHCP and thus eth1 cannot get an ip address so it downs the interface. Can you post your config files fro both eth0 and eth1?

[mousewho]

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
	address 192.168.0.1
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	gateway 
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Is this what have you been looking for for me to find?

It says that eth1 is set to static IP, maybe I should set default gateway for it on the IP of eth0 that has cable modem attached on it.

[mousewho]

I have solved my Problem! )))

This is the link to the solution:
Howto Share internet connection - Ubuntu Forums

The problem has been solved by sharing an internet connection in Kubuntu !

This text has been copied from the link above:


The following will explain how to share your Internet connection:

Note: Type all the following commands in a root terminal, DO NOT use sudo.

1. Start by configuring the network card that interfaces to the other computers on you network:

# ifconfig ethX ip

where ethX is the network card and ip is your desired server ip address (Usually 192.168.0.1 is used)

2. Then configure the NAT as follows:

# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ethX -j MASQUERADE

where ethX is the network card that the Internet is coming from

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

3. Install dnsmasq and ipmasq using apt-get:

# apt-get install dnsmasq ipmasq

4. Restart dnsmasq:

# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

5. Reconfigure ipmasq to start after networking has been started:

# dpkg-reconfigure ipmasq

6. Repeat steps 1 and 2.

7. Add the line "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" to /etc/sysctl.conf

# gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

8. Reboot. (Optional)

I hope this helps.

Good luck!