From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39461880.7B02CBF3@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 06:18:24 -0500 From: "James G. Stallings II" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russ Cox CC: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Hello and some Plan 9 network configuration questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b9152bf8-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Thanks Russ! Will be putting this inplace today. Have read start.html exhaustively (it got me through setting up a new user) but it gets a little bit vaugue on some of the networking. Probably great for someone moderately familiar with Plan 9... Thanks for the tip concerning the "nvram" and floppy. Note that I'm setting up the standalone box to develop a driver for the voodoo 3 agp - I want to run it on something more substantial than a 486 in "production". The 192.168.0.0 net is a class B private network - I guess I need to describe the supernet in ndb as well? Haven't read ndb(2) yet - will ref it today. Thanks Russ- James Russ Cox wrote: > 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 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com