Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2388 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 08:06 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Robert Best wrote:
> > Verner wrote
> >
> >   
> >> fire up Konqueror and in the url line type:
> >> fish://IP-of-that-other-machine-on-your-local-net.
> >>     
> >
> > Both machines have the same IP 127.0.0.2 according to /etc/hosts
> > The HOSTNAMEs are different, rwb.site and fam.site
> > fish://127.0.0.2   gives my own machine rwb.site
> > fish://fam.site    gives error, cannot connect
> >
> >   
> 
> Any 127.x.x.x is your local computer.  It is not another computer across
> the network.  There has to be some other address.  A lot of people
> running behind firewalls use 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x.  If you're
> connected to the internet, there has to be some other address used,
> beyond 127.0.0.2.
> 

Use ip -a to see what address your eth interface is using.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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