[techtalk] network configuring

[Deepa Karnad]

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From: Laurel Fan <lf25+ at andrew.cmu.edu>
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] network configuring


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>Excerpts from linuxchix: 18-May-100 [techtalk] network configuring"Deepa
>Karnad"@blr.vsnl. (1539*) by
>> One basic question. How can an IP address be assigned to a host?=20
>> Tried many ways including Lisa. Could not figure out.=20
>> I understand that there should be some way of accomplishing this. How =
>> else does a host know if the destination of a certain arrived packet is =
>> itself?=20
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>In unix, the IP address is generally assigned to the interface (such as
>(for linux) eth0 for an ethernet card or ppp0 for a ppp connection) with
>ifconfig.  ie, you tell it and then it knows.  If you use dhcp, ppp, or
>a higher level configuration tool, something else might be doing this for
>you.
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>You don't specify what OS or distribution you're trying to do this for,
>and I have no idea what Lisa is, so unfortunately I can't help you with
>your specific problem.
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I'm working on Caldera OpenLinux Lite version 1.1

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