ping with crossover cable

[THUFIR HAWAT]

On 6/22/05, Edward Dekkers <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au> wrote:
...
> > what I'm seeing in the system-config-network gui doesn't 100%
> > match with what I'm looking for.  I'm not seeing NETMASK or
> > BROADCAST mask.
> >
> 
> Try doing things the good old manual way by editing:
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> 
> read:
> 
> /usr/share/doc/initscripts-<version number>/sysconfig.txt
> 
> for all options available to you.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.

thanks, Ed.  that's a rather huge document, but I think I've got the idea.

here's what I have for ifcfg-eth1:

#D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
#BOOTPROTO=none|bootp|dhcp
#which do I want?
HWADDR=00:0D:88:37:FA:22
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
BROADCAST=192.168.10.255


only I'm a bit unclear about the BOOTPROTO setting.  is that about right?


thanks,

Thufir