I know that i have been a posting a few questions lately on networking.. And i have been RTFM so don't worry.. Ok here is my problem.. I just purchased a "NETWORK EVERYWHERE 5port fast ethernet network hub" made by Linksys.. I was planning on sharing my cable connection between this computer and my linux box... ok i plug in the hub , everything looks good , then i plug the ethernet cable from my cable modem into the hub and everything still looks fine.. both of my systems have ethernet cards in them and they are configured.. I power on both boxes and it seems like only one of them can access the internet at a time.. why is this ? Am i doing something wrong ? I power on my linux box when this one is already connected and it sais "unable to determine ip connection for eth0" connection failed.. So i did a dmesg | grep eth0 and it sais:
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56]
eth0: link up
eth0: remaining active for wake-on-lan
Maybe i am doing something wron here , but the bottom line is that only one computer at a time can access the internet.. I'll continue to work on this problem myself until one of my fellow AOers decides to show his mind about this situation..