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Great!  I'm using 192.168.1.1 for the pentium and 192.168.1.2 for the
486 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.  I'm not sure what the nameserver
and gateway fields should read but the RedHat installation seems to
fill them in with numbers anyway.

 I seem to have the two talking via a parallel cable (i.e. they ping
fine), but the RedHat installation stops cold on the last step (name
your server and your directory).  I have put the appropriate IP
address in the /etc/exports file...

/mnt/cdrom 192.168.1.2

...but it says "can't mount from this server" or something like that.
I'm a bit stuck now!

Cheers :)

On 11 Jan 1999 11:01:48 GMT, zebee@zip.com.au (Zebee Johnstone) wrote:

>In aus.computers.linux on Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:29:01 GMT
>Mikhail Bovineck <Bovineck@heaven.chess.com> wrote:
>>
>>Well I think the key concept is "appropriate IPs and bingo" which is
>>what I am struggling with (I haven't had much experience with
>>networking - i.e. no experience).
>>
>>Could you explain that for me please?
>
>I can  try....
>
>OK.. the command you want is ifconfig, that's how interfaces go up and
>down and do their thing.
>
>You want to create a nice new network interface, which is a plip one.
>
>Pop up a window with man ifconfig in it, and see what the  options mean.
>Pop up another one on the CDROM machine (which I will call the host) su
>as root, then tail -f /var/log/messages so you can see what things are
>happening.
>
>Get a 3rd window up, su as root, follow the bouncing ball...
>
>1) creating the interface
>	ifconfig plip up
>that was simple wasn't it :)  You message logging window should show
>something like:
>
>	Jan 11 21:45:15 tasma kernel: plip1: Parallel port at 0x378,
>	using assigned IRQ 7.
>
>2) configure the interface.
>we'll use those famous "private network addresses" for this job.  There
>are several, the easiest to remember are the 10.0.0.0 network ones.  These
>are addresses you use when you are not playing in the iternet.  LAter of
>course you'll have a different "real" one for your 486 if it gets on
>the net.
>	ifconfig plip1 pointopoint 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1
>read your man page....  that will tell you
>that I have set the host box to 10.0.0.1 and the other end of
>the link to 10.0.0.2.
>
>3) check it works...
>first do an ifconfig to see if it's really there
>	ifconfig -a
>that will show you all interfaces.  plip1 should be there in 
>all it's newly created glory.
>
>This is one from another machine that's been used for transferring
>redhat:  (tasma hasn't  had a working parallel port for years...)
>
>plip1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FC:FC:0A:00:00:01
>          inet addr:10.0.0.1  P-t-P:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:111504 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0
>          TX packets:111387 errors:31 dropped:0 overruns:0
>          Interrupt:7 Base address:0x378 
>
>Things to note - the netmask.  The netmask is a weirdness whose use
>you don't need to bother about.  Just give the Mask as shown  on your
>ifconfig output (255.0.0.0 in the above example) to your 486 if
>it asks for a netmask.
>
>The 486's IP is 10.0.0.2
>
>Hope it works for you...
>
>Zebee
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