From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 16:13:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enzo.vangyzen.net (dialup-245-108.greenvillenc.com [208.25.245.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E644937BAFD for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:13:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vangyzen@enzo.vangyzen.net) Received: (from vangyzen@localhost) by enzo.vangyzen.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA24988 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 May 2000 19:14:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from vangyzen) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 19:14:24 -0400 From: "Eric S. Van Gyzen" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Simple SLIP Setup Message-ID: <20000507191424.A24967@enzo.vangyzen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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