From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 19:33:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA23780 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:33:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA23773 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00263; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:30:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Andreas Kohout cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Andreas Kohout wrote: > how is the right way to configure my box locally if I dont have a static > IP from my provider? > > I do it this way, is this right? Something like that. Looks OK to me, although I'd give your box a 10.0.0.1 address too so it can talk to your laptop. > /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.augusta.de localhost > 127.0.0.1 rabbit.augusta.de rabbit > > 10.0.0.2 rabbit.augusta.de rabbit > > > the 10.0.0.2 is for my LAN with my Laptop ... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major