On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Russell Johnson wrote: > Yes, interface lo is the loopback, but that's just it… It's local to the > machine only. usually on the 127.0.0.0 network. By local I mean that > machine ONLY. The lo interface is not used for external communication. > Another machine on the same network IS external communication.
Yes, I know this. That external machine is called the 'gateway' and defined in /etc/network/interfaces. It is reached via the wireless access point. > You'll maybe need to set up the eth0 or eth1 network for connectivity to > another not local the that machine. ifconfig -a shows no ethernet interfaces; only the wireless (wlan0) is used on that machine. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
