Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 19:14:24 -0400 From: "Eric S. Van Gyzen" <eric@vangyzen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Simple SLIP Setup Message-ID: <20000507191424.A24967@enzo.vangyzen.net>
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My home network of four machines uses the 192.168.1.0/24 network. I just bought a laptop with no ethernet card and would like to connect it to one of my FreeBSD workstations with an RS-232 cable and SLIP. What address/netmask should I give the laptop? Should it be one in the class C that my other machines use, or since it will not be directly connected to the Ethernet, should it be from some other subnet, such as 192.168.2.0/24? If it should come from another subnet, will I need to give the workstation a second (alias) IP from that subnet? Should the subnet mask be 0xffffffff or 0xffffff00? As far as routing, since I have only four machines, setting up static routes to the laptop on each machine would not be a problem. These are simple questions to which I should know the answers, but I just want to be certain and do this The Right Way. Please Cc: any replies directly to me, as I am not subscribed to -questions. Thank you in advance for your advice. -- Eric S. Van Gyzen eric@vangyzen.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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