Re: Testing the connection
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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 01:18 pm, csj wrote:
> Thanks to the pointers in this list (and 1.2 MB of downloaded
> documentation) I have what appears to me to be a crossover
> cable. I have the two Linksys NICS slotted nicely in and have
> loaded the tulip.o kernel driver.
>
> The problem now is: what do I do with it? This is my
> /etc/network/interfaces on Box 1:
>
> ## BEGIN
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.64
> network 192.168.0.0
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> ## EOF
>
> On Box 2 "address 192.168.0.64" reads "address 192.168.0.65". Am
> I right to assume that I could now "ping" 192.168.0.65? The only
> /etc file I adjusted is the above "interfaces".
>
> I don't have NFS enabled in the kernel because all I want is
> simple box-to-box file transfer. I'm thinking of using, based on
> the documentation I've already read, something called "netcat" or
> at most ftp. Am I on the right track?
>
> This ethernetworking stuff is turning out to be the toughest
> GNU/Linux task I've set myself to do.
>
> TIA
If you can ping then the cards are set okay. You may need to set a default
route, (man route)
Keep it simple, use 'scp' to copy between boxes, 'man scp'.
i.e. 'scp user1@192.168.0.64:/home/user1/<file? \
user2@192.168.0.65:/home/user2/'. You can eliminate the first user@ command
by copying from the directory the file is in.
- --
Greg Madden
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