[SLUG] Network

[Jamie Adams]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:52:15 +0000, Pete Redwood
<pete at predwood.charitydays.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm struggling to get two computers in the same room to talk to each
> other. Both have ethernet cards, both computers connected by network
> cable, both machines running SuSE 9.1.
> I was reading the other week that all that was needed was to give both
> machines a static IP address and then log in to that address. I am
> missing something? SuSE reports that the network cards are configured as
> DHCP and therefore require a DHCP server. Follow instructions to set up
> server, click button to start server - message "Error, server cannot be
> started." Try the NFS route, same result. I can't find any way in SuSE
> to configure as static IP. As soon as I try to set up a server on either
> machine they hang on bootup with the message "No network found".
> Any suggestions?
> 

Hi Pete,

I would go about setting up your network manually first. DHCP might be
a bit overkill for a simple home network.

On each machine, bring up the network card and give it an ip address.
>From a terminal:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

substituting the ip address on the second machine with something like
192.168.0.2.

Then see if you can ping the other machine. If you don't get a
response back make sure that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
contains a 0.

If you still don't get a response, make sure your cable is cat5 crossover.

HTH
Jamie