Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question [solved]

2008-02-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert a écrit : 1. Leave your current working LAN untouched. 2. Physically connect your desktop PC and the older laptop with a rollover cable. 3. Create a second network on your desktop PC using eth0. 192.168.2.1 would work fine. 4. Add the laptop to the new network, assigning it 192.168.2.2

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question

2008-02-17 Thread Robert
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, My wife and I live in a two-storey flat, and we have a small home LAN (100% CentOS 5) with a "classical" configuration: On the ground floor, there is the telephone jack with the DSL modem router (192.168.1.254). This modem has a mini-switch with two Ethernet jacks t

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question

2008-02-17 Thread Barry Brimer
I have an older laptop here, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D, that I'd like to use as a simple build box. It's physically installed next to my desktop PC. It doesn't have a wireless card, so I vaguely thought: is it somehow possible to connect this laptop with an Ethernet cable to my desktop PC's unused

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question

2008-02-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 08:33 -0700, David G. Miller wrote: > Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have an older laptop here, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D, that I'd like to > > use as a simple build box. It's physically installed next to my desktop > > PC. It doesn't have a wireless card, s

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question

2008-02-17 Thread Chris Boyd
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 07:34 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > My wife and I live in a two-storey flat, and we have a small home LAN > (100% CentOS 5) with a "classical" configuration: > > On the ground floor, there is the telephone jack with the DSL modem > router (192.168.1.254). This modem

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question

2008-02-17 Thread David G. Miller
Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an older laptop here, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D, that I'd like to use as a simple build box. It's physically installed next to my desktop PC. It doesn't have a wireless card, so I vaguely thought: is it somehow possible to connect this laptop with

[CentOS] Network configuration question

2008-02-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, My wife and I live in a two-storey flat, and we have a small home LAN (100% CentOS 5) with a "classical" configuration: On the ground floor, there is the telephone jack with the DSL modem router (192.168.1.254). This modem has a mini-switch with two Ethernet jacks to it, and the two are