Hi Tony,

>Hey sorry for my lack of knowledge:
>but i got three network cards, one in on the w2k pc, the other two are on the linux-box, if i do static in all 3, 192.168.0.1 goes on card to the cable-modem
>192.168.0.2 goes on the second card to be connected to the w2k machine and in the w2k machine i could go 192.168.0.3.
>Now the gateway would be the card going to the cable modem, is this right?
>
>But I tried static , non-static (DCHP), combination of both and still cannot connect these two machines. Is there some kind of standard architecture to accomplish what i am trying to do.
>Thanks for the reply,

The card connected to the cable modem should be DHCP, unless you were given a static IP address. In that case, set it to whatever the cable company gave you. The addresses on the other machines are not critical, as long as the first three numbers (192.168.0) are the same. You want to set the gateway on the second machine to the card that is connected to the network on the first machine. So with the setup you have above, the W2K machine (192.168.0.3) should have the gateway set to 192.168.0.2.

That should make it where you can at least ping out to an IP address on the internet, and hopefully be able to have full web access. You may have to set up the DNS servers on the W2K machine if you can't browse the web.

Finally, if it seems like you are doing everything correctly, but it still doesn't work, try powering down the machines completely (especially the Windows machine). I have had to do this before, and it was very difficult to troubleshoot.

Hope this helps.