Hi,
As follows, seek any help to overcome problem with networking two
Linux computers that are on the lan.
I've a lan with up to four computers on it.
Internet access is provided for this lan via 56k dialup using a
Smoothwall Express 2.0 , a dedicated 300 MHZ Pentium II box.
The Smoothwall (Smoothy) is also the dhcp server for the lan and
handles DNS for the lan.
No problem with internet access.
And, no problem networking Windows machines with Windows machines they
each have a (unique) computer name, work fine with dhcp as
administered by Smoothy.
My problem is to get a couple Linux boxes to network with each other
on the lan. One is Fedora box, the other is RH Linux 9.
Neither of these has ifconfig. reports bash: command not found.
Each these box has one NIC which wired to lan switch. Smoothy also
wired to lan switch.
Not yet find a way to know ip of Fedora. ? . Windows machine the
ipconfig tells the story, works.
Looked for entry in Smoothy (of recording of assigned ip's on the lan)
but didn't yet find any such recording/entry.
Fedora, gateway and dns is: 192.168.0.1
which is the Smoothy box. Smoothy's dyn dns works fine, internet
access is fine.
But it appears that Fedora either 1. has no way to look up the
assigned ip of the other Linux box. 2. or Fedora's firewall and the
nic not as a trusted zone. 3. or no unique computer name on each of
both linux boxes i left it be localhost when I installed those Linux.
(I ruled out #2 by assigned nic to trusted then turned off firewall
for a while to no avail)
I've networked Windows machines for some years now. But I'm new to
networking some Linux boxes with each other.
Also: I wonder if sufficient advantage by have two NIC's in each Linux
box -- one as trusted lan -- the other as not trusted and wires to
separate switch to Smoothy ie further separate my internet access away
from the lan.
--
Alan.
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