+++ Amish Mehta [01/04/02 17:46 +0530]: > Hi, > > I want to connect my home and office computers(atleast share files, > full TCP/IP would be best). But the problem is both computers > have invalid IPs 172.16.x.x and I do not have control over gateways to The invalid IP range will not be a problem. Just ensure that they are in different subnets. At least one of the systems will need a static IP address. Run the VPN server on this system. The other system will act as a client.
> setup VPN(one on in2 cable network, other on star cable network). I > can keep both computers on 24 hrs, having access to internet via > their local gateways. But I do not know how they will find each other. One of them needs a static IP address, > Currently I manually email and download files but is there a way I > can actually FTP to and fro? I would recommend scp actually, but you need the VPN first. Devdas Bhagat -- People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange surroundings -- they can become accustomed to read Lisp and Fortran programs, for example. - Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro, Art of Prolog, MIT Press _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
