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greatant

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Registered: 2011-02-12

Posts: 28

[Solved] Netcfg networking basics. Connecting PC to Xbox via ethernet.

My PC is connected over wifi to a router and the internet. It's connecting automatically using Netcfg's net-auto-wireless and using dhcp for now. I'm trying to plug in my Xbox (original) to the PC via ethernet so that I can FTP to it and eventually bridge the connections to get internet to the Xbox.

I can get the Xbox connected and ping it successfully. But when I try to access the internet on my PC I guess it tries to route through the ethernet rather than the wireless and doesn't work.

My networking skills are non-existent so the following is probably wrong somewhere and I could use some pointers getting this working.

PC using DHCP to router:
IP: 10.1.1.2
Gateway: 10.1.1.1

My netcfg ethernet profile for connecting to the Xbox is set up as:

CONNECTION='ethernet'
INTERFACE='eth0'
IP='static'
ADDR='192.168.1.23'
GATEWAY='192.168.1.1'
DNS=('192.168.1.1')

and the Xbox is set up for Static IP:
IP: 192.168.1.99
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.23
DNS: 10.1.1.1

Last edited by greatant (2011-07-05 05:38:16)

ewaller

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Re: [Solved] Netcfg networking basics. Connecting PC to Xbox via ethernet.

Can you post the output of ip route  ??  Your problem is probably the default gateway.  You may want to drop the GATEWAY clause; It is telling your system to look on 192.168.1.1 for the Internet.

Also, What is your IP address on your WLAN?  If it is using the same subnet (192.168.1.*) as the wired Ethernet, you are in for a world of hurt.

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greatant

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Re: [Solved] Netcfg networking basics. Connecting PC to Xbox via ethernet.

IP address on WLAN is 10.1.1.2, router is at 10.1.1.1

I can change to whatever address range suits.
I specifically selected the 192.168.1.x range for the ethernet cos I figure it needs to be different to the WLAN.

ip route without ethernet connected:

10.0.0.0/8 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.1.1.2  metric 303 
default via 10.1.1.1 dev wlan0  metric 303

ip route with ethernet connected:

192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.23 
10.0.0.0/8 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.1.1.2  metric 303 
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 
default via 10.1.1.1 dev wlan0  metric 303

EDIT:
Works now. Can ping both websites and Xbox.
ip route with ethernet connected and gateway removed from ethernet netcfg profile:

192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.23 
10.0.0.0/8 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.1.1.2  metric 303 
default via 10.1.1.1 dev wlan0  metric 303

Last edited by greatant (2011-07-05 05:30:01)