Re: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
David Oswald hat gesagt: // David Oswald wrote: Hello all ... I have convinced a client of mine who is novell IPX based to install a debian linux machine into their small company. (all they have ever used is Novell for file and print shares). I am about doing much the same for our

questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread David Oswald
Hello all ... I have convinced a client of mine who is novell IPX based to install a debian linux machine into their small company. (all they have ever used is Novell for file and print shares). Initially , this new debian machine will be used to serve up internal web pages and

Re: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Kevin Traas
QUESTION: Is their a generic ip addressing scheme that should be used within this company , since it is not connected in any way to the net. Does it even matter? I guess I could use any address I want ... There's an RFC on this, but I can't quote the number at the moment This RFC defines the

Re: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Stephen Zedalis
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, David Oswald wrote: QUESTION: Is their a generic ip addressing scheme that should be used within this company , since it is not connected in any way to the net. Does it even matter? I guess I could use any address I want ... Yes, use one of the private network blocks set

Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Sen Nagata
about private ip address spaces: Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597 http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt people may want to have a look at: http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html which also talks about: Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices

Re: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: : QUESTION: Is their a generic ip addressing scheme that should be used : within this company , since it is not connected in any way to the net. : Does it even matter? I guess I could use any address I want ... : : : There's an RFC on this, but I can't

Re: Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sen Nagata wrote: : about private ip address spaces: : : Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597 : http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt : : people may want to have a look at: : : http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html : : which also talks

Re: Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
Following up my verbose message ... One place you can find all the RFCs in a browsable format is http://rfc.fh-koeln.de/doc/rfc/html/rfc.html I find using the browser a bit easier than ftping the RFCs from internic or wherever ... : On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sen Nagata wrote: : : : about private ip

Re: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Kevin Traas
I've heard claims that some Novell specific hardware won't do anything but IPX. I've never encountered this myself. (anyone know if it's true?? FUD??) AFAIK, a hub should be doing all its work at the hardware level anyway. If it's just an ethernet hub, it never gets beyond the Physical and

Re: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, David Oswald wrote: QUESTION: Is their a generic ip addressing scheme that should be used within this company , since it is not connected in any way to the net. Does it even matter? I guess I could use any address I want ... Others had

Re: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Bill Leach
Have not done this myself so... First, IPX and IP can co-exist and Linux speaks both. Again, I don't do IPX but possibly the Linux capability might aid you in setting this up incrementally. No, idea about the hub though. It should be willing to accept the Linux box as a valid novell machine