agreed, ms had their "howto" (nb article) buried. once i found it, it pretty
much explained everything in detail on how to do multi ip stuff.
linux was all in howtos.
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Why is it easier for Windows? They don't follow all the rules which were
> defined on networking. I mean I learned how to network with TCPIP not
> Microsoft TCPIP. They are apples and oranges. Why else would Windows
> market their server separate than their user software?
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> When you buy Microsoft you are deciding you don't want to know everything
> about networking. When you use Linux you have many options to configure
> the network to your needs. Typical windows users don't know what to do. I
> am sorry to say there is no WINIPCFG.EXE in Linux. (LOL)
>
> I would say when in doubt look on the internet for documentation on how
> to's many college students in the early 90s wrote document for configuring
> things for UNIX/LINUX or go buy an O'Reilly book on network. Linux is just
> using the standards. Linux is not secreting on its networking.
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> Roger
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> it took me about 2 - 3 days from knowing little on local lans to set up my
> small local lan using ip aliasing to to different ip's that i obtain thru
> cox
> @home cable modem service.
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> I found little howto's on the process but pieced together what i could to
> get
> the 2 working. probabely really easy for a windows programmmer (gee i
> wonder
> why).
>
> I would imagine that there will be plenty of
> inquiries on the topic, as such, will be writing a small howto on the
> process
> for the next several days. --
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> (it took me approx. 5 days to include the nfs routing, etc)
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