Re: [9fans] Network Configuration

[Gabriel IVANES <yingyangzigzag@yahoo.fr>]

Ray Amberg wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks again for helping me get the Sis900-based ethernet card working 
> on my machine.  I'm sorry to bother again, but I've got a new problem 
> trying to get the machine configured to work on our network.  I've 
> read through the Network Configuration wiki, and while I learned a few 
> things, some things still remain cloudy (my networking knowledge is 
> minimal too, apologies).
>
> I have a Belkin router, which is located at 10.50.50.1 on the LAN, and 
> whose computers start at 10.50.50.100.  There are a couple of other 
> computers, using Windows and Linux, and they are automatically assigned
> IP addresses when they connect to the router.  I think this is another 
> way
> of saying the router has its own DHCP server.  On a query of one of the
> Windows machines, I found that the Gateway, DHCP Server, and DNS 
> server were all 10.50.50.1, the address of the router.
>
> Trying to make sense of the Network configuration wiki, I added the 
> following to my /lib/ndb/local file:
>
> ip=10.50.50.104  ipsubmask=255.255.255.0
>     ipgw=10.50.50.1
>     dns=10.50.50.1
>
> I manually put in 10.50.50.104, and have a feeling I shouldn't be 
> doing this.  In any case, the result was a failure.  The plan9 machine 
> can ping itself at 10.50.50.104, but can't ping 10.50.50.1.  DNS 
> queries fail with the error: dns: temporary failure.
>
> I tried looking through previous 9fans posts for ways to configure a 
> simple connection to a router, unsuccessfully.
>
> Would someone be so kind as to help me find a way to get the ethernet 
> card connected to the router, and hence, the internet?  Apologies 
> again, I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing.  Thanks for your time.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ray Amberg
>
Hello..

I'm a newbie... :p

Take a look at your /rc/bin/termrc ? seems necessary to address a DHCP..




	

	
		
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