Thanks to everyone for their help, but I still can't connect my Windows ME notebook.
1. The gateway IS set up correctly.
2. I CAN ping the Cisco modem from the ME notebook.
3. As a desparation move, I removed the dialup connections.
4. I removed all proxy server settings under the Internet settings applet.
5. Neither Exploder nor Outlook can find the server in any way, shape or form.
Unfortunately, converting all my systems to Linux isn't an option.
Any ideas?
Patrick Fleming wrote:
> Unless you are using a proxy server there is no need to set anything in
> the browser. The routing just needs to know how to get out of the LAN to
> access anything else. If the machine can see the outside ip# (public) then
> you should even be able to set it to that external ip#.
> You can check the status of Win routing by typing c:\windows\route print.
> Patrick
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Patrick. That command-line program looks similar to what I was doing in the GUI, but I'll have to try it anyway. I wonder how to tell
> > Windows where to connect. There's a place in the Internet Exploder Internet Options dialog for a server IP and port number, but I'm not sure what
> > port number to use.
> >
> > Later,
> > Vaughn Treude
> > Nakota Software, Inc.
> >
> > Patrick Fleming wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for your reply, Dan. Your setup is similar to mine; though it seems I need to run dhclient on my firewall machine in order to acess the
> > > > internet. Either that, or there's some other configuration step I accidentally did when I added that in. My "eth1" NIC behaves a bit
> > > > strangely; it always shows a FAIL when the system comes up, and dhclient first reports the network as "down" and then succeeds. I don't know
> > > > what's happening, but at least it works!
> > > >
> > > > Both you and Gontran mentioned setting up the Gateway address on the client machine, which is what I'd missed, because I skipped the step where
> > > > they had you setting up the NIC, since it was already set up! Now I can successfully ping the Cisco from another machine on the LAN. Now I
> > > > need to figure out why my stupid Windows machine doesn't let me replace the dialup connection with a LAN connection. It has buttons for LAN
> > > > configuration, but be damned if I can figure out how to actually enable it (or if they mean the same thing by "proxy server" as Linux people
> > > > mean by that term.) I know it's terribly OT, but is there a trick to making this crazy Redmond stuff look over the LAN without deleting the
> > > > dialup account? (One of these is a notebook.)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks again,
> > > > Vaughn
> > > >
> > > Here's the setup that I used. In tcp/ip properties of your nic, I set
> > > enable DNS, and set the name servers to one inside name server, and one
> > > outside name server. I have problems when the internal DNS is down so I
> > > don't think that the external forwards correctly... another project. I
> > > also set the nic ip number. From the command line
> > > c:\windows\route add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 {firewall nic ip}
> > >
> > > If I remember correctly this machine was still able to dial out indepenent
> > > of the firewall.
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
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