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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> On 13 May 2004 at 8:50, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> 
> > Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> > > Here's testit, which I did chmod +x  to before executing it.
> > > -------------
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/bin/busybox
> > > insmod slhc
> > > insmod ppp
 
> > > #------ ETHERNET  (using Belkin card)
> > > insmod rtl8139
> > > ##  if DHCP server is on network
> > > # dhcp                       
> > > ##  if no DHCP server is on network
> > > ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 up  

> > > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up  
> > 
> > Normally you should ifconfig lo (localhost) before eth0.

Netsetup had nothing about lo - what is this for and should I be including 
this line for ISA cards?  I am using two computers and no hub.

> > > It works, but there are error? messages at the bottom of 
> > > the result, which I can't recall:
> > 
> > If we are to make any sense of this, we need to see the
> > exact messages.
> > 
> > >  "SNMLBNISS  resource busy", or some such

I get some similar looking error message (long string starting in S all 
caps) when I forget to type eth0 after ifconfig.

> Please excuse, but what do slhc and ppp do?
> 
> I am guessing that ppp has to do with contacting a remote system via 
> modem?  (We do ppp-on to dial up)

They are needed to dial with eznet to a remote network, but are they also
required for using ethernet in a local network?  I have them automatically
installed on startup now in BL2 on hard drive, but not with the ramdisk 
BL2 I was trying to use with the ethernet card (ISA) that appeared to work 
but would not ping.  This may be my problem and if so thanks for bringing 
this up.   I had only used ethernet before to transfer fs.img on computers 
where BL2 was installed to hard drive.  
 
> I recall from years ago, there was different ways of dialup, and "PPP" 
> was supposed to be a little better than "SLIP"?
> 
> As long as we're at it:  what is dhcp?  Why and how would one use it?

I think this has something to do with automatically assigning a DNS server 
(to provide DNS numbers of things you type in by name).  It might connect 
a bit quicker if you provide the numbers of the DNS server yourself.
Someone please correct me if wrong.  

> Thanks,
> 
> Sheldon Isaac
> 
> 
> 
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