Hi I would like to have a "floating" Debian system on my external SCSI HD. At home I have no (network ...yet :) and at work I have a connection through ethenet. I think have resolved all the details except a proper network connection. At install, I said I had network and gave the IP addres of: my host at work, the network, gateway and DNS.
However something wrong happens with the email. I can send mail, but I cannot receive any. Sendmail creates huge logs for every bounce (it tries every 30' by default). I can ftp and telenet but other people cannot telnet or ftp into my machine although I modified the /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow Q1) Maybe I should not use the DNS and rout through my own /etc/hosts? Is there any advantage? Q2) Is there any script to do this things being "taken by hand" ? Q3) Can I use dinstall? That's the script one runs when installing the system for 1st time. I imagine its in the boot and saved a copy before rebooting... Can I use it to REconfigure the net, maybe I missed something during the installation? I notice that modconf is available in sbin/ but what about the other modules related to net configuration? Any net guru out there can help me to configure the system? Maybe not "on-line" in this list so as to save bandwidth. Thank you, Lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. I read a lot in the Network admin quide, but that was 1 year ago... :-)
