From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com To: brojohnson@home.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie Network quesition MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-tkfayzvnknydkosetsjgpugwsf" Message-Id: <20010529120436.3322A199D5@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:04:32 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: aa25dec0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-tkfayzvnknydkosetsjgpugwsf Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This depends a bit on what the Linux box is doing for you. Regardless, the first two steps are: 1) describe the ethernet card in plan9.ini. man plan9.ini for details 2) reboot and make sure the card was recognized. You'll see a line in the startup noise with the ethernet card type and address The rest depends on your configuration. 3a)If your plan9 machine is connected directly to the cable modem or if the Linux system is being a media bridge for it: ip/ipconfig -h hostid should do it. host id is the host id given to you by your @home company. It is used by their dhcp server to distinguish your system, at least that's what they do where I live. Dhcp should get the rest of the info you need like gateway and dns servers to use. If this works, change your /rc/bin/termrc to reflect it. 3b)If you are going to use your Linux box to actually be an IP gateway, then either it will have to run a dhcp server or you'll have to configure everything by hand. Be sure to read rsc's /sys/doc/start.ps. Then you'll end up doing something like: ip/ipconfig -g gateway-ip-address ether /net/ether0 your-ip-address you-ip-mask echo ' dns=your-dns-server' >> /net/ndb Cheers. --upas-tkfayzvnknydkosetsjgpugwsf Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Tue May 29 05:34:11 EDT 2001 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Tue May 29 05:34:10 EDT 2001 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.6.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 2998119A11; Tue, 29 May 2001 05:32:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 96023199D5 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 29 May 2001 05:29:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 154fea-0004BR-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Tue, 29 May 2001 10:19:04 +0100 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: James Message-ID: <3B12F6D3.FD17DCBC@home.com> Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Newbie Network quesition Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:18:15 GMT I got Plan 9 installed. I did a Network install. I created a user (I learn the basics of Sam, boy do I dig it!). I have @Home cablemodem service with two static IP addresses. One is assign to me Linux router/firewall that connects two other pc's to the world. The other IP address is for my Plan 9 box. Sofar it is a standalone box. I want to get it connected to the world. I want it to retrieve email and all that good internet stuff, I also want to be able to work on it from my linux boxes or any other remote location and have outside users on it. Can someone PLEASE help me or send me a walk through on setting up a Plan 9 box to use cablemodem so I could download, webbrowse and learn more about Plan 9. Thanks in advance for your help and time James Johnson --upas-tkfayzvnknydkosetsjgpugwsf--