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Article #119Re: Almost there; networking the XL....
From: Craig Lanning
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
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At 03:39 PM 6/3/99 -0700, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > >Basically, here is my setup: I've got a Linux 2.2.x box with a modem >that connects to the internet via PPP and has one ethernet card. The >XL is the only other machine on the network. The network is >192.168.0.0, the Linux box is host HAL, 192.168.0.1. The Symbolics is >host TRILOGY, 192.168.0.2. > >When I first set things up this way, I changed a line in >FEP0:>Local.boot from > > Set Boot Options :Network Address internet|192.42.172.3 > >to > > Set Boot Options :Network Address internet|192.168.0.2 > >and then in the Namspace Editor I edited all the various objects and >whenever I saw 192.42.172.3 I changed it to 192.168.0.2, and >192.42.172.0 to 192.168.0.0. When I first rebooted, I was able to ping >the Symbolics from the Linux box. The login screen looked something >like this though: Anytime you change the primary network address of the namespace server machine you MUST make a new world. This is because the network address specified in the boot file must match the network address in the namespace or the machine won't know who it is. Another option for you is to always boot a non-configured world and have the machine load the namespace info everytime it boots. This only works for Ivory based machines. I use this on our NXP1000. If you're interested I can send you directly (or if more people are interested post to the list) the necessary info and example boot files for the "config on boot" method. Craig Lanning
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