Eberhard, my complaint ("not easy") refers mainly to Ch 21.4 Basic Networking in the SuSE documentation. It's really too long and complicated to set up a simple LAN, and it asks to enter IP addresses but never mentions ifconfig or ip commands to find them. Regards, Robert On Sunday 17 June 2007 19:34, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Hi Robert,
we will help you to get along. Don't despair
Thanks. Please see below.
Robert Best wrote:
Eberhard, it is not easy.
On Saturday 16 June 2007 17:53, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Robert Best wrote:
rwb:~> ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue ...... 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc ...... inet 192.168.1.65/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 ......
fam:~> ip a ...... inet 192.168.1.64/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 with 64 instead of 65.
rwb:~> ping 192.168.1.64 sends and receives packets
fish://192.168.1.64 works !!!
Hi Robert,
Congratulations!!! It's easy, isn't it?
No. Kenneth on this list learned me about the command ip a which is not mentioned in O'Reilly's Nutshell or the SuSE manual. Ch 21, Basic Networking in the Reference documentation should include info about how to find unknown IP addresses of computers in a LAN.
well, Kenneth's command works but I think, the more usual command for this is: /sbin/ifconfig This is surely documented in the Nutshell. And it is easy, I memorize it as i(NTER)f(ACE)config(URATION)
Yes, it covers two pages in the Nutshell.
If you are root, a simple "ifconfig" works, as an ordinary user, you need /sbin/ifconfig
but only after tearing down the firewall
on machine fam, I assume? That is ok, if your internet router acts as a firewall for your local network.
It is a Speedtouch ADSL modem. Don't know about firewall capabilities.
At least something is giving you the 192.168.x.x ip Adresses. If they come from your Speedtouch and it converts them to "real" Internet Adresses, this acts in fact as a router.
If you feel better enabling the firewall on fam, you need to allow ssh traffic on port 22 as has already been said in another mail. You can do that easily with yast on machine fam.
No. I can't find it in YaST2 / Security and Users / Firewall.
Yes, you can: ;-)
Yast2 / Security and Users / Firewall / Allowed Services (for External Zone) / Service to allow / choose SSH from the List / klick on Add And: you are done!!
Don't understand. I use fish (or sftp, not ssh) to transport files in the LAN which I suppose is in Internal, not External Zone. Port 22 is never mentioned in these zones. I'd like to put the firewall between the LAN and the Internet. Currently I pull out the phone line from the router when I disable a Firewall.
In case that there are more problems that you encounter or you have more questions, just do not hesitate to ask.
This list has only one sole reason for existence: It is here to help people achieve what they are heading for!!!
I was amazed that so many people responded to my question. Thanks to all!
And Linux may not be easy, especially when you are beginning to explore it, but chances are, you will never ever regret it.
I use SuSE Linux since vs 8.2 and explore other distros on 3 other partitions, but SuSE is my favorite.
regards Eberhard
Kind regards, Robert
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