[Wylug-help] peer to peer wifi programming

[Jim Jackson]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to have a server-client communication between two PCs using wifi.
> So far I can do that by using an intermediate router with DHCP. What I
> would like is to take the router out of the loop, in other words have
> peer to peer communication between the server and the client with static
> IPs. Any clues on how to do that?

Yes you need a plan :-)

Draw up a list of the machines you are configuring Choose a network
number, the prefix for the host numbers you'll allocate e.g. 192.168.1.0
Then assign fixed host number (to replace the "0" bit in the network
address) to the machines - I do that on my network.

How you do that depends on your distro. Most have a config widget - untick
the dhcp box and enter the IP address you've assigned for that machine.

Enter the IP address and name details in /etc/hosts on each machine and
you can use names instead of numeric addresses.

Jim