How to properly set up a static IP address.
I have installde debian 1.2 on my desk top machine and
origionally configured it with an IP address of 0.0.0.0 since my ISP
uses dymanic IP address allocation. A few days ago I decided to try
setting up the desktop machine as a server for my laptop so that I
could get a little space on the laptop drive. wu-ftpd was loaded on
the desk top so quick and dirty I launched that and attached the
laptop to the desktop using ppp, giving bath the local and remote
addresses to pppd like so (pppd /dev/ttyS1 57600 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2).
When tried to use the paltop as a client I couldn't get a
connection to the ftpd however using the loopback address on the
desktop there was no poblem. Obviously my routing was screwed up.
After reading several FAQs and "Running Linux" I was confused enough
that I somply did "ifconfig lo 10.0.0.1" and it ran. This is surely
not the way I want to perminintly set things up.
Can someone give me some direction on what to read and or what
file changes I need to make. The changes should be simple enough.
Thanks for any help.
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