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Any basic text on TCP/IP On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:03 AM, chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. I have the system up now and running thanks to the help > offered from clug members. > Can you point me to some reading regarding the points you have raised. > > Regards Chris Thomas > > > > On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 14:59 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > 169.254. etc is not a real IP address. It is one allocated by zeroconf >> > or similar when you cannot get a real world ip address. Set them to >> > 192.168.1.x >> >> If all these machines are running zeroconf, and there is no DHCP >> server active, then they will probably already have given themselves >> link-local addresses and names. >> >> As Nick says, the IP addresses will be something like 169.154.x.y >> >> Whether you use DHCP, static addressing, or zeroconf, the machines >> should be reachable by name where the names will be <hostname>.local >> E.g. machine1.local laptop.local etc. No DNS server should be >> required. >> >> regards >> >> Eliot > >
