Re: [Sheflug] Networking

[Paul Branston <nospam [at] rannoch.demon.co.uk>]

for provate IP ranges see rfc 1918.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Richard wrote:

> Sammy
> 
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, sammy wrote:
> 
> > I would like to be able to build a lan using my linux machine and my
> > brother's win98 machine the have the same type of NIC card  what I need
> > to know is how to setup a basic test network. What ip address and so on
> > i need to get my machine talking to my brother's.
> 
> most internal nets use Class C stuff.  That's a range along
> 192.168.XX.XX.  The X can be replaced with anything from 1 to 254 [ ??
> ]
> 
> Once you've got two machines plugged into each other through a hub [?]
> then you need to ping the IP address of one machine with the other.
> 
> After that things get complicated.
> 
> Can you bring the stuff in on Saturday ?  I'll bring a hub.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
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