Re: [Sheflug] Re: Network Goes on Holiday

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

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     Al> The two machines *have* to be on the same subnet. If the
>     Al> Debian box is on 192.168.0.1, and you don't want to change the
>     Al> config on the Debian box, then the SuSE box *has* to be on
>     Al> 192.168.0.* somewhere - like 192.168.0.5.
> 
> This is simply not true.

Yes, I know, I was making a generalisation that is correct for the 99.99%
of home users, no matter how many computers they own or how funny a
network they have. I use (in York) a network consisting of Linux boxes,
Win boxes, a Mac, an Amiga and a BBC Model B - we've never needed to set
up complex networking stuff. It's usually only needed for people doing
VPN, or something similar.

> Not by Yast, of course.  Nor do I know what evil implications it might
> have for things more complicated than ping and traceroute, or for a
> firewall.  I do know that the packets go through.

Packets going through the firewall? Some sysadmins stop the basic
(ping/traceroute/etc./idcp(?)) packets, and that makes me laugh ;)) 

I've also seen people set up some idiotic feedback loops using
port-forwarding, and wondering why it isn't working.. d'oh. 

Cheers,

Alex.


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