Re: [MLUG] setting a home lan

[Ian Monroe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>  - can't telnet to either machine, connections are refused
>  - can't browse my local network through the file exporer, I get an error
> that says "cannot connect to local host" 
I had a simular problem a while ago with Mandrake 8.0 (there is an earlier
thread about it) and it was fixed when I disabled plip0 (whatever the heck
that is). 
The command do that is (at root):
ifconfig plip0 down

Start the network manually (or look when its booting up) to see if it
starts anything else your not sure of, as that is how I figured out plip0. 


> 
> * using linuxconf I set the host names of the machines to be something like:
> "name1.localdomain" and "name2.localdomain" (under the k menu/system/network
> configuration, the hostname shows up as "name1.localdomain" and the domain
> name as "clmba1.mo.home.com").

I have my domain on @Home as the Cnnnnn where n are numbers that I don't
want Google to pick up on. I use static IP (it dual boots with windows),
and have never got dynamic work; maybe this is why.

 
> * I got the ip addresses from my router's dhcp table and configured the
> /etc/hosts file accordingly. Each computer has the same /etc/hosts file.
> 
> * I enabled ip forwarding by editing /etc/sysctl.conf on both machines.
As was already noted, you don't need ip forwarding if your on a hub and
each box already has its own ip provided by @home.

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