On Sunday 22 June 2003 07:14, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Since days I am struggling to setup my simple network. I have read TFM. I have looked at the info and man pages but does not seem to get it right. I have two computers connected with a twisted cable. I am still running 8.1 but would like to get the basics right before I install 8.2.
Is there a hub or switch in your network? Is the cable a 'crossover' or straight cable? From what you say below, computer 1 is the gateway for computer 2.
Situation: ISP pop3 dialup 202.195.32.2 and 202.195.33.2 home net: name) constant.net. 192.168.0.0 computer 1. PII, name ) bigone, 192.168.0.1 computer 2. P100. name) p100. 192.168.0.2 Computer 2 should send emails and connect to the net via computer 1. On Computer 1 postfix and fetchmail are running and they seem to work.
Yast2: network address setup
eth0.) IP Address 192.168.0.1. Subnet mask) 255.255.255.0. Think above input is correct.
Yast2, Host name and name server setup Hostname) bigone, Domain name) constant.net Name server 1) 202.159.33.2 Name server 2) 202.195.32.2 Domain search 1) constant.net No check boxes are crossed here. Less sure if I am right here.
Yast2, Routing configuration: Default gateway) 192.168.0.1 Quite sure that this is not correct or? Checkbox Enable IP forwarding checked. else no other input. Is it right that computer 1 is a server and computer 2 client? What and who is the gateway? Is there some peace of information which describes in simple words my situation. The manuals and man and info pages always seem to think that the Yast2 setup is self understood and if they give samples it always differ from information source to information source.
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