Re: Networking

[Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan <nikolai@Ukraine.humbug.org.au>]

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Steven Udell wrote:

> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.# netmask 255.255.255.0 up 
> on each one.. but this is where I am....
I'd add broadcast 192.168.0.255 as force of habit :)

> I need to edit /etc/ resolv.conf & hosts and then
> add route..  is this it? then is should be good 
> to at least ping each other? or telnet in ?
> Still not sure how I would go add the eth0 info
> ontop of my resolv.conf ppp(isp) info on the one box..
> (yea my isp uses dynamic) I don't need my network to
> use the ppp (WWW) yet..just to see each other..
you don't need to edit your resolv.conf file, just the hosts file.
then all you do is route add -net 192.168.105.0 on each of the
machines and you have a network :) of course I might point out that
for your network topology the dialup box should be the firewall :)


Nikolai