Rob,
a good place to start on a standard linux system (not sure if rh
follows these standards...) is /etc/rc.d/
in there you will find rc.inet1, and rc.inet2 This is where most of your
networking is. You will aslo porbabably enable a module for your nic (id
suggest using the ne or ne2k-pci (if you have a pci nic) module (io=300
irq=10 is usually a good setting, but it depends on what might be using
those settings...)
so... in the rc.inet files, you will find where you can edit your info
(like your ip addresses and such...) other good files:
/etc/resolv.conf = nameserver info.. very hand for DNS!
/etc/hosts = where you put local host <> ipaddress
/etc/hosts.deny
/etc/hosts.equiv
/etc/hosts.allow = security settings and such for your hosts...
/etc/sendmail.cf = configuration for sendmail (if your going to do a
mailserver)
/var/lib/apache/ = webserver files for webservr (http.conf in your conf
directory for config)
those will keep you busy for a while... I like the old slackware script
netconfig its pretty straight forward if you have it, try it... its easy
:)
Jamie
> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:45:06 -0800
> From: Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Home Network
>
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 05:31:38PM -0800, Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now! wrote:
> > What? no... if your just doing tpc/ip, you configure it, and it works...
> > really, i know its hard to believe, but it works!
> >
> > so... I belive you said your using redshat, with it used netconf, or the
> > graphicical tool... pop in private network addresses (192.168.1.1, 2,
> > 3...) netmask 255.255.255.0, enable each nic, and it works (try pinging
> > each machine...
> > setting up ip masq is a bit harder, but there are good docs
> > online...
> >
> > Jamie
>
> Reading the NAG is helping out a lot. I need to change some
> settings in each, like the hosts files.
>
> Do most people run 127.0.0.1 as their loopback, with
> 192.168.0.[123...] as their network?
>
> I'm assuming I should use 192.168.0.[1-255] on one box, and
> 192.168.1.[1-255] on the other.
>
> Networking is pretty vague to me, but that's why I'm trying to get
> this working. :)
>
> I'd prefer not to use linuxconf... It seems to break my stuff more
> than anything. And I like editing my config files by hand so I
> learn more about what's going on.
>
> -Rob.
>
