Re: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 22:08, John Floren wrote:
> Bram Mertens wrote:
[...]
> Here is what I would do if I had two computer connected by crossover and
> a ppp connection to the internet:
> /etc/network/interfaces:
> auto lo eth0
>
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.1.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> broadcast 192.168.1.255
Why do I need to add the broadcast address?
Can the ppp0 configuration be left out because I can use pon
dsl-provider to achie the same as ifup ppp0 in my example?
TIA
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