Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (103 mails)

["Adrian Wells" <adrian-wells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Just lurking here, watching the router thread unfold...

A couple of things.
1) Would people submitting to the list please not use TLAs, It really does
mess up the flow every time a new TLA is encountered, and me, being a chap
with a small brain am often obsessed for days trying to work out the latest
TLA, usually at the expense of the knowledge being dished out. So please,
TLA users, have a thought for us thicko's with little imagination. That also
goes for FLA's, SLA's etc.

2) More to the point, Is it really necessary or just good practice to use a
second network card when connecting to a router? The implication below is
that it IS necessary.

TLA? Oh, Three Letter Abbreviation, e.g BTW (I know what this means now!), I
fully accept NIC and other common abbreviations for technical terms, but
please, let's try to hang on to the last vestiges of English. It may be
quick to write but... I suppose we could do it properly and use Three Letter
Abbreviations (TLAs) in the correct manner, as practised by the technical
press et al.


Thanks for all the info over the last year, have a great Christmas break and
enjoy the new millennium.

What do you mean, annually retentive? :-)

Adrian




<snip>
> > ....Have a Network of PC working under SAMBA
So 192.168.1.1 will be (one of) the network cards in the LINUX box attached
to
the rest of your network.  Make sure you configure the 'gateway' address
in the TCPIP bit of the control panel of your PCs.

Either you will have a second ethernet card in the LINUX box attached to a
router
or you have an ISDN card - or - I suppose a modem.  This will connect
(hopefully)
on demand.

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