I want to setup a home network of two machines (mick and mack) connected with ethernet cards, mick having a ppp dialup link to the internet as well. I don't want to do masquerading yet, simply mick being able to talk to mack and vice versa, while mick can also go on the Internet via ppp.
When I do a clean install on mick (having both eth and ppp) the setup asks for a router and DNS server. Can I safely answer "no" to those two questions and get by with amending the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts files? I'm thinking of... /etc/resolv.conf domain fleamarket.nl (this being my local domain name) search fleamarket.nl nameserver "IP number of my ISP's nameserver" /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback 192.168.0.1 mick.fleamarket.nl 192.168.0.2 mack.fleamarket.nl I'm afraid to get into routing trouble, where mick doesn't query the ISP's DNS server. I had this before: the local network worked fine, but I couldn't get mick to route to the internet for addresses other than 192.168.01 and 192.168.02. Any reassuring and encouraging words appreciated on this Sunday :0) -- Hans
