How to create a network between 2 fedora computers?

[Patrick Boutilier]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Coume - Lubox.com [mailto:coume.mailinglists at lubox.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:10 PM
>>To: Ow Mun Heng
>>Cc: coume.mailinglists at lubox.com; fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: Re: How to create a network between 2 fedora computers?
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>>>1. Get a Cross Cable
>>>2. setup the Ips of both Pcs
>>>	eg: pc1 -> 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0
>>>	    pc2 -> 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0
>>>3. bring up the interface if not up already. 
>>>	/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
>>>4. try pinging the box
>>>	ping 192.168.0.2 (from pc1)
>>>5. That shouls be it..
>>>
>>>so exchange data, you could either try scp/ftp/samba/nfs 
>>>
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>>Hello,
>>thxs for your quick answer.
>>
>>Where do I have to set up the IP? is it in resolv.conf?
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> YOu can try using 
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> IIRC 
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> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
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> (actually you know what.. scratch that.. I forget..)
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> use redhat-config-network
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> to determine if you have a valid ip already.. try 
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> /sbin/ifconfig eth1


Even easier:

On pc1:

ifcfg eth0 192.168.0.1/24


On pc2:

ifcfg eth0 192.168.0.2/24



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