Linux (Mandrake 10) Internet Connection Sharing

[Luther1978]

I've recently put together a small server for use at home to share the Broadband connection in place of the existing windows XP computer that is doing the job at present.

I have 2 ethernet cards in the server (Which is running the official release of Mandrake 10.0), eth0 is a realtek 10 base ethernet card, and eth1 is a 3 Com 100 Base Card. I can set the server up to make use of the exisitng shared broadband connection over eth1. This works fine as does all the network services of the server. I can also set the server up to use the internet over eth0 connected via cat 5 to the cable modem. This works fine until eth1 comes into play. If I set eth1 to find its IP by DHCP then both ethernet cards work although the internet connection sharing doesn't. If I set eth1 to be a static IP address of 192.168.0.1 (Switching off or amending the IP of the old server using that IP) eth1 doesn't work and neither does the internet connection via eth0.

I can't see why I can't have eth1 assigned a static IP, and eth0 connected to the modem on a DHCP.

Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Martin King (Linux Newbie)

 

[nawlej]

Did you set up your DHCP server to point to the eth0 ip address as the default gateway?

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[Luther1978]

No I haven't as far as I know.
Eth1 has been set with a default gateway of 192.168.0.1

I haven't played with the DHCP Server settings at all, as I'm not aware how to do so?