Re: IP without host
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for
> a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to
> let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that
> compiled in correctly).
Just give them an IP from one of the private ranges (ie 192.168.0.1 ->
192.168.0.254), and simply associate the names with IP#s in /etc/hosts on
each machine. DNS isn't required.
> i've got an AMD (nt, right now) and an sx164. the sx uses the tulip
> driver for the NIC and it works great with IP. i tried to compile IPX
> and the tulip.c fails to compile. any help getting this to work would
> be great. TIA
Sorry, can't help there.
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