Re: [LUG] Networking

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> Thank you once again for all your help. You are an excellent bunch and
> have inspired me to what is a fun voyage!
>
> I am currently using Suse 8.2 and am still struggling to get the network
> going. I am hoping in the near future to maybe go down the road of the
> LTSP project but in the meantime would like to get at least two machines
> talking!
>
> And that is where my question comes in. I have read many HowTos and
> several articles on building a network but as of yet I am not networked!
> I can't get past the basics. What do I do first? Do I set up my
> firewall? I was going to use Smoothwall - is this a good idea. Do I set
> that up first? Then I was going to install Suse 8.2 to a server but it
> doesn't come with Apache, Mysql or PHP as standard. Should I therefore
> get Suse Enterprise Server? I have several PII's and I intend to install
> Slackware to them. When do I connect them in? I did get to the point of
> having two machines networked or so I thought but they wouldn't talk.
> The hub I have is a donated one. The lights come on so I assumed it
> works but how can I tell?
>
> I hope you're not too overwhelmed by the number of questions but if you
> can point me to a book that would answer these questions that would be
> useful as well.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Rich


Rich,

If i understand this right, You want to setup a lan to share internet
access and also play with web servers ?

despite what you may have been confused by networking on a small scale
is not exactly rocket science.

Essentially you will need to decide on which IP address range you want
to use. 192.164.0.0 -> 192.168.0.255 would be logical (you dont have
more than 255 machines do you ??)

Once you have decided that you need to allocate the IP addresses to your
machines, ensuring that none collide.

192.168.0.1 - Internet machine
	(I would suggest you use a dedicated smoothwall for this)
192.168.0.2 - PC1
192.168.0.3 - PC2
192.168.0.. - PC...

The "subnet" you wil need to set in this instance will be 255.255.255.0

Configure a machine name (hostname) for each machine

Thats about all is required.

If you have any further questions relating to networking please don't
hesitate to contact either myself directly offlist or alternativly mail
back to the lug.

Neil Stone



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