> I am having some problems setting up my ip address, i will be glad if you
> can help me out...
> Actually,i want to setup my linux machine such that people can dial in on my
> telephone and after user-verification establish a ppp connection. for that,
> i need to assign an ip address to my machine, say 192.168.5.1
> no please tell me as to how can i do that... the default address is
> 127.0.0.1 but this one is not accepted by the remote (win 95) machine.
> Please help me at your earliest.
> Thanking you in advance !!!
> Gaurav.
>
An IP address is assigned to each your network device and not to each machine.
And every machine has at least a device called loopback device whose IP
address is 127.0.0.1. So you cannot give this address to other machines.
When you connect your machine to an ISP, you will be given an IP address, and
it will be assigned to the device called ppp0. If you want your machine to
be a server, your machine must have an IP address for each of your device
(maybe ppp1, ppp2, ppp3....and so on).
You can get the list of devices using "ifconfig -a".
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