Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 03:37:56 +0800 From: Daniel Nang <daniel.nang01@gmail.com> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question Message-ID: <CAOtnnwtD-pG80u0D9n3COqVmN5SCr8%2BX%2B=h7ksaHCiaFFmUsUQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADy1Ce5Y7x-acw6AKNrQLK6BXVa55XdAUSHehhOUyiMAcrhKcw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOtnnwvU=n55PtRpw6KWwt9uEMqHj=3PJu3KBimAde0EW39rjg@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BtpaK24iobh5RzJ_JZ_3HO1U-3tcnTOkfNRNaDHUQtAtaw8bA@mail.gmail.com> <CADy1Ce5Y7x-acw6AKNrQLK6BXVa55XdAUSHehhOUyiMAcrhKcw@mail.gmail.com>
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Just read your mail. I will have to take some time, to look into what you have said, as I have not yet used the concepts that you spoke about. Another solution would be to install a new network card into both computers and assign static ip addresses to them, but I do not want to do that. Daniel On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Nang <daniel.nang01@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have two computers, both running FreeBSD, accessing the > >> web via DHCP from the router. The setup looks like this: > >> > >> > >> Internet > >> | > >> | > >> | > >> machine1.example.com --- Router --- machine.2.example.com > >> - DHCP - - DHCP - > >> > >> > >> Both computers can access the internet with no problems. > >> So far so good... > >> > >> My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access > >> the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with > >> each other e.g. via ssh? > >> > > > > > > machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` > > > There's the rub. How do you determine the IP address of the other machine? > > DHCP, unless configured with reservations, doesn't guarantee IP > addresses to remain the with machines that request addresses. > > So, there are two ways to solve this problem: > > o- As I mention above, use reservations in DHCP to tie IP addresses to > MAC addresses - this is a fairly manual process, and doesn't scale > beyond a few machines.. > > o- Use a DNS/DHCP solution whereby DNS is dynamically updated with an > IP address by the DHCP server when a machine leases an IP address to a > machine. This requires some work up front, but then takes care of > itself, so scales fairly well. > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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