A better reply, if you are using a NAT router, there should be a DHCP in it.
It will assign to all the machines.

You then use the router IP as the gateway, usually 192.168.1.1

See the docs for the NAT for details.

"thudd" <goose1@cox-interne.com> wrote in message
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> windows xp has auto IP addressing if no DHCP server is found. If I hook
two
> computers to a hub and install linux on each, does linux have auto ip
> addressing like xp or will I have to do static IP addressing? Using linux
> redhat 9.
>
>