Gentoo and Windows ICS

Kirja · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:04 am Post subject: Gentoo and Windows ICS

I have just installed Gentoo on my pc upstairs which is networked to my families pc downstairs which runs winxp and is my internet gateway (I know its not ideal but thats just how it is).

During the install of Gentoo using the livecd, the internet connection sharing (ICS) enabled on the xp machine was automatically detected and configured and everything was fine.

Being new to Linux I now need to know how I can configure my newly installed system to make use of the ICS and allow my gentoo box access to the net. My onboard ethernet (nForce2) is properly installed and shows up in /sbin/ifconfig.

If you could help me configure my system I would be most grateful.

dma · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:40 am Post subject:

It works automatically with DHCP (or without dhcp).

ICS has a built-in DHCP server which hands out addresses on 192.168.0.0/24.

you can specify a "-h whatever" option on dhcpcd and it will make your machine "whatever.mshome.net".

Kirja · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:13 am Post subject:

doing 'dhcpcd -h gentoo' and I get '****** dhcpcd already running'. I really could do with some more info. I am a linux/network noob :oops:

Thx

I forgot to mention earlier that I can ping the both boxes from each other. The ICS machine is on 192.168.0.1 and the gentoo box is 192.168.0.2. So no problems there.

Kirja · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:57 am Post subject:

All solved now. Big thanks to crocco on #gentoo.