On 11/10/26 10:22 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Here's what I would recommend for Karen:1) She most likely has a router that hands out IP addresses by DHCP. Let that continue to do its job, for smart phones, etc. Any device that needs a local IP address, and isn't the Debian or MS-DOS system, can continue using that DHCP service. 2) Find out whether the router can be configured to assign a consistent address to a given device. If it can (and this is VERY likely), then: 2a) Set up the Debian and MS-DOS systems to get their local IP addresses through DHCP, and once they have those addresses, tell the router to make those assignments permanent. 2b) If the router cannot do this, then find out whether there is some part of the network address space that the DHCP server leaves untouched. Either at the top or the bottom, there's usually some gap where the numbers are reserved for admin use, and won't be assigned to DHCP clients. In this case, assign static IP addresses from this portion of the network address space to the Debian and MS-DOS systems. 3) On the Debian system, edit the /etc/hosts file to contain the name and the local IP address of the MS-DOS system, and any other systems that you want to talk to by name. 4) On the MS-DOS system, do the equivalent.
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