Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 01:01:06 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Subject: Re: Creating a network Message-ID: <199605130501.BAA16626@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960512203721.251A-100000@chain.iafrica.com> from Khetan Gajjar at "May 12, 96 08:40:56 pm"
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Khetan Gajjar wrote... > Hello. > Hi, how are things going - I recall your previous burst of activity a few weeks ago. > I want to run a network at home, with my FreeBSD 2.1 stable machine > and a Windows95 machine, using either Samba or the ability to telnet > from the Win95 machine to the FreeBSD machine. I do exactly this. > > I have compiled my kernel with ed0 support, and it finds the device ok. > I am confused with reference to what lines I need in sysconfig. So far so good. The special file (/dev/ed0) should also exist. > > I need to specify it as a network interface (network_interfaces="tun0 lo0 > ed0"), but what lines do I need for ifconfig_edo and routes. > > Neither machines are on a live network and both are used for dialling > out. Also what IP address does the Win95 machine need to be set to ? Well, I assume you don't have 'real' IP addresses for this network, so you should choose addresses which _cannot_ be on the Internet, just in case some of your packets escape. There are a few networks which are reserved for this purpose (see /etc/hosts). Choose one. I chose the '10.0.0.0' network, my FreeBSD machine is IP address 10.0.0.2 and my Win95 machine is 10.0.0.3. The sysconfig entry for the FreeBSD host is: ifconfig_ed0="inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xff000000" Static routing entries in sysconfig are _not_ required. Once you've done the basic Win95 TCP/IP setup, you should be able to ping and telnet. Then you can start on Samba... By the way - in the early stages, do not set up the 'Client for Microsoft Networks' binding in Win95. Add this in later, for now it only slows down booting and adds confusion. > > --- > Khetan Gajjar > Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ > UUNet-Internet Africa Operations > help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002 > I heartily recommend the book 'TCP/IP Network Administration' by Craig Hunt. It's an O'Reilly book and explains the basics of TCP/IP, routing and the basic applications (including DNS) very well. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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