hi folks, my name is rob and i'm a project engineer with a company in bavaria (no, not bmw :-) ). i'm using debian/gnu linux 2.1, kernel version 2.0.38 on 2 machines: one laptop (amd k6/266MHz, 64MB ram) and one pc (i486DX2, 66MHz, 16MB ram). recently i managed that both machines recognize their nic's (yeah!), which are a 3com 3c589D (PCMCIA) in the laptop and a UMC9008 (ISA, NE2000 clone) in the other pc. now, as you might have guessed, i am planning to hook those two up via ethernet, so i can telnet from one machine to the other, mount files systems of the other machine and do all other kinds of fancy things. (yes, i'm a newbie ;) ). BUT at the moment i can't seem to figure out what has to be done in order to set the IP adresses for both machines right, i.e. i don't know in which files i have to enter what to make all this work. i have read the ethernet-HOWTO and the networking-HOWTO, but somehow it was pretty late at night and i wasn't able to get the info i wanted. on the other hand i'm sure that, as no internetworking is involved, this should be the easiest exercise for you gurus out there, so i hope you can give me some hints how to proceed or point me to some documents on the net that deal with my "problem"
thanx in advace rob ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
