Re: Networking basic - I want my own IP

steve_roach@hotmail.com (steve) wrote in
news:a3b28a14.0307161942.769edafa@posting.google.c om:

> This may attract some laughs but I am having trouble getting past move
> 1.
>
> I want to set up something like this:
>
>
> network modem
> Intel Box ---------------- Windoze Box ------------------ ISP
> --------- -----------
> Red Hat 7.2 Windows ME
> Oracle 8i MS Office
> Oracle clients
> e.g. Warehouse
> Builder
> email client
> Web browser
> |
> |
> Printer
> -------
>
> All the docs start by saying 'with your IP Address...'
>
> The questions are:
>
> - I suppose I will need an IP address for both the Linux and Windoze
> boxes. Can I just make them up or do I have to get them from
> somewhere?
> - My ISP uses dynamic IP assignment - I hever know what I will get
> from one session to the next. If I have already assigned my own IP
> Address to the MS box, what happens when I go on-line.
>
> I'm pretty confused here, I can tell ya.
>
> TIA

Think of it this way. Your computer does not have an IP address. Each
network device on your comuter has an IP address. That address is either
assigned to a device by the user, or through DHCP (from your ISP.)

So, when your modem connects to your isp it will be assigned an address
from them. This address will be a public, routable address.

Your network card that connects your windows machine to your Red Hat
machine, however, needs to be assigned by you. As the other responder said,
use an address in the private, non-routeable range of 192.168.1.x

You have another problem though. Your windows machine must be able to route
packets destined for the internet from the network card to the modem and
out to the internet. For that you need Internet connection sharing, or a
proxy. The configuration will depend on that.


Good luck.
Mark