From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 12 14:44:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from msg3.ureach.com (msg3.ureach.com [209.191.157.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C0E514EE1 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonkeating@ureach.com) Received: from www7.ureach.com (IDENT:nobody@www7-2.ureach.com [10.2.1.26]) by msg3.ureach.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA07597; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:44:54 -0500 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www7.ureach.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA18818; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:44:54 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:44:54 -0500 Message-Id: <199912122244.RAA18818@www7.ureach.com> To: "Jonathan Chen" From: Jon Keating Reply-To: Subject: Re: Connecting to LAN Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="_uReach_com_26916734994503869418815xxx_" X-vsuite-type: e Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --_uReach_com_26916734994503869418815xxx_ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't know if this matters or not, but I've seen in all the manuals that they are using the reserved RFC IP's for local networks. My IP is one that is pingable from anywhere in the world. I remember setting up a red hat machine on a network once last year and it was just by editing some file in /etc... can't remember... but i know i didn't have to do the ifconfig and stuff... arg... i got a headache now ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com --_uReach_com_26916734994503869418815xxx_-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message