DHCP? Hardcode? What's an admin to do?

Well, I've got the network pretty much set up, in W2K.
There's a diagram at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~entheos_e...ntheos_LAN.gif

I've got everything talking to each other and the internet in W2K;
Installing and RTFMing Linux and Networking has taught me enough
that I believe I could go out and configure networks like the big
boys - I've discovered their dirty little secret - that one setting
that nobody tells you about, that you have to either find out by
inexorable digging, or enroll in their course and be anointed as
a network expert or whatever.

And for $125.00/hr, I'll tell you the secret! ;-)

Anyway, at the moment I've got Entheos-ws1 plugged right into the
hub, so I can type this; Thunderbird plugged into the hub, and
Vehicle plugged into 192.168.0.1 on Thunderbird.

When I plug Entheos-ws1 into Thunderbird, it doesn't get any
kind of network connection, of course.

With Vehicle, when I boot, it says network unreachable. Of course.
I haven't touched anything on the fresh virgin install on Thunderbird
(Slack 9.1), other than vga=ext in lilo.conf and with
/sbin/modprobe sis900
inserted _before_
/sbin/modprobe tulip
..
Thunderbird can ping out, but nobody else is talking. I'm not
going to try to ping 192.168.0.1 from Entheos-ws1, because it's
off the subnet at the moment.

Vehicle didn't get a connection because I haven't done _any_
configuring of Thunderbird yet. I'm going to change Vehicle
from DHCP to 192.168.0.2, boot, and see what happens:
....
OK, still won't ping, but I notice ifconfig on Tbird shows
eth1 not up. So, ...
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask
255.255.255.0

they can ping each other! YAY! :-D

But Vehicle can't ping out. (Tbird can ping, e.g. www.yahoo.com.).

So, what's next? DHCP? masquerading? forwarding? DNS? hosts?

Waiting, like the cat that ate the cheese, with baited breath,
Rich

On 02-11-2004, in alt.os.linux.slackware,
Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:

> So, what's next? DHCP? masquerading? forwarding? DNS? hosts?
>
> Waiting, like the cat that ate the cheese, with baited breath,
> Rich

Ground worms make a better bait...

Max

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