Um..OK why do you want to give the linux box a range of IPs? Do you mean to setup a DHCP server on the linux box for the local network?
I'll try to help a bit here, but honestly sounds as if you need to do a lot more reading. Your linux box is the gateway device. It connects your network to the internet via dialup. In a text book example your linux box would have the IP address 192.168.0.1 on the eth0 device. All other computers on the network would have 192.168.0.1 as thier gateway IP address. If you want to setup a dhcp server on your linux box to distribute IP addresses to the rest of your network, you should do a search on google.com for a redhat DHCP how-to. With /etc/hosts, I wouldn't worry about it for now. After you can ping IP addresses then you can worry about your hosts file. In fact you can run a caching name server if you wish as well. Questions: Why is the NT box the 'proxy'? Did it at one time share it's internet connection with the rest of the network? What is the overall goal of this project? My suggestion is to do some serious reading today, and tonight. Start with the networking how-to you can try http://www.linuxdoc.org The linux documentation project for more reading. On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 14:48, Kirby Clements wrote: > Okay ... the good news is that I can ping the IP of the linux > box/router. > > I am now struggling with giving the eth0 a range of IP addresses. I > have been trying to use 'ifconfig' to do this, but can only seem to set > the NIC card to just one address. > > Also, I am wondering if the /etc/hosts file should include all hosts on > the actual network. the NT machines in other words. I now have the > client machine's IP and hostname in this file. I think some vital info > I left out in my earlier message was that the one NT server with a > static is not only the mailserver but a proxy for the network. I am > wondering if that should make things easier on my part. As well, should > I include that IP in the /etc/hosts file. I take it I should. So, the > IP setup is, from an ifconfig: > > 192.168.0.1 NIC card > 192.168.0.2 linux.box.com > 192.168.0.255 Broadcast address > 255.255.255.0 mask > > And the dialup issue seems fine. I just cant reach the machine vi a hub > or either connecting the client directly to the NIC card of the linux > box. Meaning, I have yet to use that PPP connection that the linux box > dials. And can only ping the IP from client to linux box, nothing else, > yet. > > Kirby -- Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warp Drive Networks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
