Senthilkumar Rajasekharan enscribed thusly:
> Hi all,
> I have a configuration in which there are only two machines that are
> connected either back to back over a cross over cable or a hub.
> For these two machines to start exchanging IP packets the IP addresses
> have to be in the same subnet (provided I do not make any modifications to
> the routing tables of these hosts) .
> These machines were already assigned IP addresses and were pulled off
> their original network to get the configuration that I have mentioned
> above. Now my problem is to keep one of these addresses (IP1)as it is and
> modify the IP address of the other machine to be in the same subnet as
> IP1 automatically.
> Essentially I would like to have some piece of code that would do the
> following :-
> i) get IP address of the other machine
> ii) set the IP address of this machine ( through ifconfig possibly....)
> iii) do a connectivity test
> Has anyone done this or has any ideas on how this possibly could be done ?
Why don't you just use dhcp?
That way one systems asks the other system what IP address to use.
> Regards,
> -Senthil
Mike
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