Re: [gentoo-user] basic network

2005-05-31 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Shouldn't he also setup a dhcp server like dnsmasq on the gentoo box? That's what I did, was it an overkill? raf Red wrote: luis jure wrote: hello list, i'm trying to setup my very first network at home. i have my desktop (gentoo linux) and a recently purchased laptop (still with windows

Re: [gentoo-user] basic network

2005-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 09:57 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Shouldn't he also setup a dhcp server like dnsmasq on the gentoo box? That's what I did, was it an overkill? Well. a DHCP server would most likely be needed if you plan on automatically giving out IP addreses. But for a network of 2

Re: [gentoo-user] basic network

2005-05-30 Thread Red
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 luis jure wrote: hello list, i'm trying to setup my very first network at home. i have my desktop (gentoo linux) and a recently purchased laptop (still with windows XP) both connected to a switch. the switch is also connected to an adsl