On 11/9/26 10:33 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
What I do not own is an IP address.
It is the process of securing one I am asking about.
Since these machines are local to each other, you can use a local ip
address instead of acquiring a routable public ip address.
I presume some kind of router device provides your internet connection?
Those routers normally generate/hand out ip addresses on demand to every
device on the network via dhcp. If the networking on the new debian box
is left at the default configuration, it will get its ip address from
your router/dhcp service. The downside with dhcp, is, the automatic ip
address assigned can change from time to time, which would prevent you
from connecting via ssh to the linux box. The fix for that is to set a
static ip address on the debian linux box, that is compatible with your
internal network. This might even be the same address the router would
suggest, and can also be locked to the computer's mac address in the
router. These ip addresses on internal networks are not public ip
addresses and are not bought. They are free to be re-used by everyone on
their internal networks. The NAT feature in the internet routers is what
prevents for example, your computer's ip 192.168.1.6 from conflicting
with mine at ip 192.168.1.6
