On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 15:11:59 -0500, Justin Newcomer <liquidice5@gmail.com> wrote:
> i know you can rtfm manual and all that stuff, but some simple points
> just to get your questions answered
> 
> 1. you cannot set any computer to the 192.168.1.0 as it is the network
> address, as in the base address for 192.168.1.1-254 (if ur using a
> 255.255.255.0 subnet mask)  along those lines, you cannot use .255 as
> an address as it is the broadcast address for that network.
> 
> 2. I dont know anything about binding multiple ip's to the same nic,
> but for your purposes, you dont need to.  the reason that you have 2
> options in windows for dns is incase the first one is down/not
> responding, but you dont have to set both.
> 
> 3. as for reinitializing the network interfaces, its as simple as
> "ifconfig tlp0 down" "ifconfig tlp0 up"  or whatever interface your
> using. that will take the port down, and bring it back up, while
> reading from its config file.
> 
> 4. As far as nat'ing (Network Address Translation) which you will
> eventually use to reroute the packets from the qube's internal
> addressing scheme to the more external one, the manual is a good place
> to start, because I havent done that in a while, and even then it was
> on cisco 2900 series routers, not in a *nix box.
> 

Ah ha, I skipped right through the addressing problems.

As for DNS, usually you can get away with having 1 server... You don't
always have to have 2. But I guess you could run 2 DNS servers on the
same machine as long as you can bind them to different addresses?

I haven't done much network stuff with my Qube because it had some
bandwidth problem due to some bug with the PCI implementation on it?
Don't know, haven't checked to see if it was fixed in a while now...

Andy