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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 01:53:49 -0400
To: alteridentity@yahoo.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hello and some Plan 9 network configuration questions
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A good question.  You should refer to
plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/start.pdf (or start.html)
but I'll make a few comments too.

The use of a single Plan 9 box for
everything is officially discouraged,
but understandable.  I was trying to
figure out how to massage things to
do that in a similar situation earlier
this evening.

To create some nvram,
	dd -bs 512 -count 1 </dev/zero >plan9.nvr
and copy that to the floppy that you're
booting from.  (Yes, unfortunately you
have to boot from a floppy to run a cpu
server currently.  Otherwise it will not
find the nvram file.  That's a bug.)

Then when you boot you'll be prompted
for the appropriate information.

The Plan 9 install makes a box that is
fairly locked down, rather than wide open.
You have to explicitly turn on the more
sketchy services.

As for your network, you want something like:

ipnet=home-net ip=192.168.1.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0
	dns=151.164.1.7
	dns=151.164.1.8
	ipgw=192.168.1.254
	auth=plan9
	cpu=plan9

ip=192.168.1.1 sys=nitro
ip=192.168.1.2 sys=plastique
ip=192.168.1.3 sys=dock
ip=192.168.1.4 sys=tor
ip=192.168.1.7 sys=plan9 proto=il

I could be wrong, but I think 192 is a default
class C network.  If it is a class B address, you would need

ipnet=big-net ip=192.168.0.0 ipmask=255.255.0.0
	ipsubmask=255.255.255.0

too, because the network search starts at the
default network and works its way down.  It's
described in ndb(2) and start.html.

Russ