Re: [Sheflug] Re: Network Goes on Holiday

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Richard wrote: 

> > Changed what? The netmasks & ip addresses were the same..
> 
> netmask

You mustn't have pressed 'save' then, 'cos it didn't change!

> Well, I couldn't get my firewall to work on my Debian box and I
> realised that it was because the address of my workstation was wrong. 
> So, I thought I'd better change it.  What I didn't realise was that
> Matt has got his own way of doing things which are different from my
> own.  So, when I changed the configuration it  messed up everything
> :-(
> 
> I thought it was better to change the workstation config rather than
> the firewall.  I wanted the SuSE box to be one down/along from the
> Debian box.

Well, if the firewall is 192.168.0.0, why not have the workstation on
192.168.0.5, or something?

Cheers,

Alex.


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