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[Constant Brouerius van Nidek <constant AT indo.net.id>]

And now it works. Thanks a lot. Your networking skills were
good enough to get me running ;-)

  JM>On Fri, 16 May 2003, Constant Brouerius van Nidek
  JM>wrote:

  JM>> Finaly got so far as to connect my P100 with my
  JM>Pentium II.
  JM>> What is wrong and where do I have to repair it?
  JM>>
  JM>My rather primitive networking skills indicate to me
  JM>that your BL machine
  JM>has no network address assigned to its interface, and
  JM>that this may be
  JM>the source of your problems.  I think the way you do
  JM>this, from the
  JM>command line is "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1".  You can
  JM>add this line to
  JM>your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file to get the network
  JM>interface address assigned
  JM>at bootup.  You might also need to add your SuSe
  JM>machine as the network's
  JM>gateway, if that's how you're using it.  That's
  JM>something like "route add
  JM>default gw 192.168.1.0".  I think that line can also be
  JM>added to
  JM>/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.  I hope I'm remembering your
  JM>addressing scheme
  JM>correctly.  Steven can hopefully pipe in and correct
  JM>any mistakes I've made.

  JM>James


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