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Hi all,

I have 2 PCs with ethernet cards, both kernels recognise the cards,
I've done the stuff with ifconfig and route and followed the stuff in
the Ethernet and NET-2 howtos, but am a bit confused about the
"default" route.

One PC, spiral, is 192.168.0.1 and this is the one with the modem
and will have ip masquerading etc setup on it.  The other is
bilby, 192.168.0.2.  Bilby has spiral as it's gateway and default
route.  What should it's nameserver be?  (neither machine is
running named, but /etc/resolv.conf on spiral has nameserver
entries for suburbia.com.au (my ISP)).  Should resolv.conf on
bilby be pointing to spiral or suburbia?

And what is spiral's gateway?  itself? or suburbia?

The problem is that I can't ping the other machine (doesn't make
any difference which one I do it from).  Just no response.  They
each have the other machine names etc in their /etc/hosts files.

Now spiral, I assume it's default route should be eth0 except
when the ppp link is up, then the default should be ppp0, right?
(I can do this in the ip-up script when ppp comes up, right?)

Also my "network" is called "localnet" as far as "route" reports,
but my domain is "suburbia.com.au".  Does this sound ok?
(I was planning that mail from either machine will say: (eg.)
david@spiral.suburbia.com.au, but then I'll get sendmail (or
qmail which I want to try once this lot works) to re-write any
outbound mail from either machine to say it's from
darius["at(@)"]suburbia.com.au, which is our POP account on suburbia).

Thanks for any help/advice/assistance!
Dave.
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