Networking

March 16th, 2006, 11:52 pm

Hello Sir,

See the figure.




Totally three Machines. All Machines are loaded in Windows 2000 Professional.

Machine 1 IP : 172.100.100.14/255.255.0.0
Machine 2 IP : NIC 1 : 172.100.100.229/255.0.0.0 NIC 2: 192.168.0.20/255.255.0.0
Machine 3 IP : 192.168.0.34/255.255.0.0

Machine 1 & Machine 2 (NIC 1) is connected to Switch 1.

Machine 2 (NIC 2) & Machine 3 is connected to Switch 2.

Already all the Machines routings are enabled using registry.
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
IPEnableRouter = 1)

In Machine 1:
Gateway : 172.100.100.229

Ping 172.100.100.229 (Machine 2 NIC 1)

Pinging Properly.

Ping 192.168.0.20 (Machine 2 NIC 2)

Pinging Properly.

Ping 192.168.0.34 (Machine 3 NIC)

Request timed out

How to call Machine 3.

I don’t want connect two switches (Switch 1 & 2) using UTP Cable.

Whether any idea please reply.

Thank You

A.Kannan

March 17th, 2006, 12:08 am

Have you bridged the network connections on Machine 2? I assume you are pinging from Machine 1 to Machine 3 in the pings? Or are you doing it from Machine 2?

March 17th, 2006, 2:27 am

Hello Sir,

Thanks you very much for your response.

How to configure bridge connection in Machine 2 please explain sir

Thank You

March 17th, 2006, 3:12 am

Just go into the Network Connections part of the Control Panel. Right click one of the connections and click "Bridge" it will ask you which other connection you want to bridge and you just select the connection for the other NIC.

March 17th, 2006, 3:34 am

Sir,

All the Machines are Windows 2000 Professional.

I have right cilck the Local Area network connections. No Bridge option is displayed.

Disable, Status, Create Shortcut, Delete, Rename, Properties options are displayed.

How to Configure sir.

March 17th, 2006, 6:12 am

Ouch sorry missed that they were 2000. Its not a native thing in 2000 and below unfortunately. You could try this(I know the page is about 98 but the software and methods might well still apply for 2000)
http://www.osronline.com/lists_archive/ntdev/thread8054.html

To be honest I think your best way is to connect the two switches. Looking at the complexity that the problem might present I think its probably by far the simplest way.

March 17th, 2006, 6:29 am

If you want to connect to a machine that is behind another switch/router/hub you will need to set up port forwarding. It depends on your switch how to do it.

March 18th, 2006, 12:14 am

Thank You Sir

March 20th, 2006, 4:12 am

Did that work ? If not I got a bit of a wacky idea

March 20th, 2006, 6:37 am

Because we are wild and crrrazy guys!

March 20th, 2006, 6:49 am

lol Seriously this idea is off the wall I was driving down my driveway when it suddenly hit me a really off the wall method of getting it to work

March 20th, 2006, 10:00 pm

Hello Alkatr0z Sir

Any Idea to access the data Machine 1 to Machine 3

Please Reply

Thank You

March 20th, 2006, 11:03 pm

I have an idea. Will test it using virtual machines tonight as its a complex method.

March 20th, 2006, 11:20 pm

Hello

I have no idea about virtual machine. How to configure virtual machine.

Please explain sir

March 20th, 2006, 11:29 pm

No I will test the method myself using virtual machines. I want to see if it works before I suggest it to you as it is fairly complex and I have not tried it before so will take some trial and error. You will not need anything more than you have already if it works.