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Thor: in regard to "How about eliminating that factor? Ken, can I tempt you to use a static IP address on the inside? That could eliminate at least one "loose end"." Please explain how to.
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Fairly simple, again, in the console, enter this
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ifconfig eth0 192.168.10.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255 up
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Where the bit marked in red is the IP address you want to use, permanently. Caution (this is a bit of networking theory) though about the choice.
Let's assume you have tow PC's on trhe same network, consider this:
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PC 1 192.168.1.25
PC 2 192.168.0.25
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They will
never be able to reach/see each other - I marked the crucial bits in red. For all participating hosts (PC's, printers, modems and what have you) in a network to function together, only the LAST bit has to change. If a bigger network is called for - this scheme only allows for some 255 hosts - a different scheme is called for. These schemes have been determined by IANA and are
documented. There is a scheme for each particular use...
Okay, your modem has 192.168.0.1 as address, fair enough, then you'd set the IP address like so:
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ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.X netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255 up
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...where X is any unused number you want...
However...this worries me:
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ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:19200 (19.2KB) TX bytes:19200 (19.2KB)
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This is the setup for the loopback deviice, but I dont see the setup of the network card...
There should be an entry that starts with eth0 as well...it almost looks as if the network card itself is not (yet) installed in the Linux section...
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Again, my gratitude to you gents for taking your time to help, Ken.
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Dont worry, in fact, I enjoy doing this, and I suspect I'm not the only one... ;)
Looking on...
THor