John, > Walter writes: > > IP address: as in the laptop: 192.168.0.2 ? > > What do you mean by "as in the laptop"?
I am setting up a small home network, to a win98 ACER extensa 710T. No hub, just 10 base T crossover cable. I looked in control panel | network and then looke at the properties of the TCP/IP bound to the ethernet card, and saw the IP address there. Wayne has already mentioned that the Linux machine will need a different IP address. I notice that in the win98 setup each dial-up asks for the server to set the IP address... so I can see how this would not lead to a conflict... each machine has an IP address for networking via ethernet, and another (asigned to it by the server) when it is using ppp. I will set up Linux ppp in the same way. Make sense? > > Where is this leading me... I will now need to redo all this again later, > > comments and tips appreciated. > > Actually, it looks pretty good. Since you refused to set a gateway you > will not have messed up ppp. The program (bootstrap?) is very confusing there... it would lead somone in my position to say no to networking, rather than no to a gateway. If I am seeing this clearly (big question mark), then it is worth making some changes in that program (which is what this is all about... probably it is already on a To do list somewhere?) Walter __________________________________________________________________ Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.psybernet.co.nz
