[oclug] Some Network help please

[William Bradley]

On October 7, 2002 02:41 pm, you wrote:
> William Bradley wrote:

>   Your windows box and your linux box are on different nets (from an IP
> point of view). You need to put them on the same network, or put a
> router in the middle that can deal with things. Assuming you have an
> extra IP address in the 169.254.73 net:
>
>   In linucxonf enter an IP address from the same net as your win box
> (169.254.73.XXX). You should be able to ping the windows box now using
> its ip address.

Thank you Mike. 

First though, when I boot the machine it hangs for a long time and then comes 
up with: "Bringing up interface eth0...... (Failed). I tried writing the same 
commands that I wrote at the root command line:
"ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 192.168.255.255"
into the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file but it did not work when I booted the unit. 
What am I doing wrong?

Concerning the above, when the VNC server is up and running it gives the IP 
address of: 169.254.73.250, so I don't know if there are extra IP addresses 
on that unit.

VNC can only connect to one VNC server at a time, which means to me that 
there can only be a one on one relationship. So I would presume that the IP 
address I would use would be 169.254.73.250. The thing is just where do I put 
it? <... ahem... be kind.. :) >

Thank you,

Bill.