On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 08:35:22PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 05 Oct 2017 at 08:55:33 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 07:23:51PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Well, thank you. But this doesn't explain the paragraph above my comment. > > > I'm just trying to understand the suggestions being made by more > > > experienced folk here, like Reco and Greg. > > > > My rationale is that having access to the Internet allows you to look up > > the answers to your problems, allows you to install missing software, etc. > > Being able to ping barney from fred on your LAN is pretty unimportant > > for most problem resolutions, compared to being able to ask Google "how > > do I set up NAT on Debian stretch", or whatever issue you're currently > > trying to solve. > > I had assumed that the OP still had internet access from their other > machines.
Which is fine for simply asking questions and reading answers, but then if you need to apt-get install something, you're kinda screwed.
