Hi, I have two boxes (one woody, one potato) with ethernet cards,
connected by a RJ45 cable. I'd like to be able to ssh/sftp betwixt them.
[I admit I don't grok networking much yet (that's partly why I'm doing
this, to learn). I've mainly been reading the Net-HOWTO and the man pages
for ifconfig, if(up|down), route, and references therein; let me know if
there's another FM I should RT.]
I've given the two boxes, 'leper-messiah' [1] and 'yomama', which I've
given addresses 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.0.1 resp; and I've edited
/etc/hosts on each box appropriately. The file
'leper-messiah:/etc/network/interfaces' contains the stanza
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
The file 'yomama:/etc/network/interfaces' contains this stanza
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
I've gotten the eth0 interface working fine (I think) on both. For
example, on yomama, 'ifconfig eth0' yields
yomama:~# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:47:A9:A1
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00
I've enabled the appropriate services in /etc/services on both machines,
I'm pretty certain, so I don't believe that's the problem.
I tried various manipulations of the routing table, but they didn't seem
to help. I'm not sure what other info is useful, so please ask.
Thanks in advance.
Aaron
[1] 'Leper Messiah' is an old Metallica song, from before they sucked.
