Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James P. Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
> As the info below will show, I know nothing at all about networking
> and, until last week, never needed to.
> 
> I have a simple router which worked fine when connecting two PCs
> running XPpro.  Now I'm trying to use it to connect two workstations,
> each running SuSE 10.0 (one 32- and one 64-bit), but there is no
> connection to the internet or to any isp.  (Yes, I know I could do
> this with a crossover cable, but I shall intermittently have network
> connection soon.)
> 
> I tried assigning one machine a local address of 10.0.0.1, making it
> the dhcp server, but no joy.  There seems to be no way to use Yast to
> create the connection that I want.  Any suggestions?

>From the Linux point of view, there's no difference beween a crossover
and hub or switch.  In Yast, configure each NIC for a static address,
such as 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 and see what happens.