From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 17 17: 8:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101E037B718 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:08:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.wiliweld.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id RAA18352; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:08:05 -0800 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:05:04 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Matthew King Cc: Subject: Re: A Networking problem In-Reply-To: <000801c0af46$7f804c60$0200a8c0@win2kbox> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Sun, 18 Mar 2001 it looks like Matthew King composed: revgho->and i set all the boxes there own ips revgho->from revgho->192.168.0.1 revgho->to revgho->192.168.0.4 revgho-> ........ one need to know the plumbling with the cables, hubs etc. You just gave the IP's addresses, there is a NETMASK, BROADCAST, GATEWAY address etc that has to be the same on all the boxes. In laymans terms that means they all have to have the same "area code" and "zip code" etc to talk on the network. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message