A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for > a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to > let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that > compiled in correctly).
Just give them an IP from one of the private ranges (ie 192.168.0.1 -> 192.168.0.254), and simply associate the names with IP#s in /etc/hosts on each machine. DNS isn't required. > i've got an AMD (nt, right now) and an sx164. the sx uses the tulip > driver for the NIC and it works great with IP. i tried to compile IPX > and the tulip.c fails to compile. any help getting this to work would > be great. TIA Sorry, can't help there. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein