From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4387A4F5.7000104@yahoo.fr> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:57:41 +0100 From: Gabriel IVANES User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Network Configuration References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b1afe8fa-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.. ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com