[Mageia-discuss] home network using broadband router

Tue Mar 6 00:46:33 CET 2012

On 05/03/2012, mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org
+<mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org> wrote:
+> ------------------------------
+>
+> Message: 4
+> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 22:33:07 +0000
+> From: WALKER RICHARD <richard.j.walker at ntlworld.com>
+> To: Mageia general discussions <mageia-discuss at mageia.org>
+> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] home network using broadband router
+>
+> Hi, I'm no network expert but I have some practical experience with
+> home networks.
+>
+> The first thing I would do is check the IP addresses on your home
+> computers. Did you configure these yourself, or are you getting
+> addresses from a DHCP service on your router. The "ifconfig" command
+> issued on each machine should hopefully show you both/all machines
+> have addresses in the same network; likely possibilities are
+>
+
+ip addresses were not configured
+
+> 192.168.0.?
+> 192.168.1.?
+
+Only each computer is seen, i.e. 'ifconfig' on computer A shows only
+the ip address for computer A and similarly for computer B. Both
+computers using mandriva. Both connected to the same netgear broadband
+router and both are able to connect to the internet.
+
+> 10.0.0.?
+>
+> If there is a DHCP service running on the router then the chances are
+> high that you can do what you want and perhaps you are being prevented
+> by firewalls on the computers themselves.
+>
+> Using the Mandriva Control Centre go to the Security panel and
+> double-click the "Personal firewall"  option. While you are having
+> "fun" getting the net working it may be a good idea to disable the
+> firewalls by ticking the "Everything" box in the "Which services would
+> you like to allow the Internet to connect to?" list.
+>
+
+Both disabled and re-enabled; no effect.
+
+> Now you can try the nmap command to see what your computer can see. It
+> should already be installed but it's no more than a quick "urpmi nmap"
+> away. My net is using 192.168.0.? so here is the output I see from
+> nmap;
+>
+> [root at Tureen rich]# nmap -sP 192.168.0.*
+>
+> Starting Nmap 5.51.6 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-03-04 22:29 GMT
+> Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.101
+> Host is up.
+> Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.116
+> Host is up (0.000097s latency).
+
+Similar above visible in command terminal.
+
+> MAC Address: 00:19:DB:4E:A8:61 (Micro-star International CO.)
+
+no mac visible
+
+> Nmap scan report for gunn (192.168.0.128)
+> Host is up (0.00015s latency).
+
+visible
+
+> MAC Address: 00:10:4B:C3:BF:8C (3com)
+
+not visible
+
+> Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (3 hosts up) scanned in 10.44 seconds
+>
+
+Aren't there terminal commands available to achieve network functionality?
+