Re: [Sheflug] Re: Network

[Darrell Blake <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 May 2002 14:45, you wrote:
> Darrell
>
> > laptop (192.168.0.3) - main machine (192.168.0.1) - firewall
> > (192.168.0.2)
> >
> > But when I try and ping either 192.168.0.2 or 192.168.0.1 no
> > packets get returned. Likewise when I ping 192.168.0.3 from the
> > main machine or the smoothwall box. Am I doing anything wrong?
>
> Your main machine should be 192.168.0.2 and you firewall should be
> 192.168.0.1

Is there any reason for this? I'm a bit confused as to why.

> > Mandrake because that seems to detect everything despite how crap
> > it is =o)

I take it back =o) I've not yet tried 8.2. The last one I had was 8.0 I think 
but I do like the hardware detection in mandrake. Have you heard of Knoppix 
(www.knopper.net/knoppix)? This is a german distribution and it has some 
really intensive hardware detection routines. I've not used it much though, I 
just tried it out to get more information on how hardware detection works.

> Mandrake 8.2 is one of the best just now.  Some of the earlier
> versions were rubbish but 8.2 is much better.  It will feature in our
> install fest along with SuSE 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2.  Maybe even Debian
> Woody.

When is the install fest? I'll probably attend. I havn't tried out woody yet. 
I had potato on my laptop for a while but I've not tried debian for a bit.

Darrell
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