I have installde debian 1.2 on my desk top machine and origionally configured it with an IP address of 0.0.0.0 since my ISP uses dymanic IP address allocation. A few days ago I decided to try setting up the desktop machine as a server for my laptop so that I could get a little space on the laptop drive. wu-ftpd was loaded on the desk top so quick and dirty I launched that and attached the laptop to the desktop using ppp, giving bath the local and remote addresses to pppd like so (pppd /dev/ttyS1 57600 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2).
When tried to use the paltop as a client I couldn't get a connection to the ftpd however using the loopback address on the desktop there was no poblem. Obviously my routing was screwed up. After reading several FAQs and "Running Linux" I was confused enough that I somply did "ifconfig lo 10.0.0.1" and it ran. This is surely not the way I want to perminintly set things up. Can someone give me some direction on what to read and or what file changes I need to make. The changes should be simple enough. Thanks for any help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]