From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin McQuiggin Message-Id: <200007092158.OAA22110@fraser.sfu.ca> Subject: Re: [9fans] planning an installation To: matt@proweb.co.uk (Matt) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:58:52 -0700 Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In-Reply-To: <003501bfe9ea$955a37c0$02a7b6c3@lucid.proweb.net> from "Matt" at Jul 09, 2000 10:13:49 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d66421c8-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi Matt: I'm a semi-newbie too, so take my comments for what they're worth: > I was hopnig to do a single computer installation but from reading through > the list archive I have half drawn the conclusion that this is not the way > to go. Plan9's distributed architecture is attractive on a network but am I > *forced* to have 3 machines dedicated to getting my first workstation going? If you have Internet connectivity can't you simply set up a terminal server and use other machines around the net? I have a single machine going as a terminal in any case. I do have Internet connectivity and so as things progress this is going to be the way it develops. I need info on other Plan 9 machines that I can connect to, though. > On the machine I installed on I couldn't get the network going. I did manage > to get it to respond to pings once but it has elluded me since. (on a > related note how do I ping out - i can't find a ping command anywhere!!) Ping is in ip/ping, if you use ip/ping that should work. > I suspect that the problem lies with the single machine paradigm but could > use some help getting it going. If you have other TCP/IP based machines around you can ping them. They should be able to ping your Plan 9 machine in any case. I believe that you have to set up TCP listening to be able to telnet into your Plan 9 machine etc though. Do you have your subnet mask and gateway set up correctly? All machines on the same LAN should have identical subnet masks. I note that your DNS shows as being on the other side of your gateway. This shouldn't be a problem technically, but is it a typo instead? Kevin -- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi@sfu.ca