On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 15:54 -0700, Paul Newell wrote: > I am back to not understanding how to force chowder to be 192.168.2.11 > given my attempts to install F9 specifying that in the network section > failed and gave me no network access to Internet or local LAN. During the install routine you're asked about configuring the network, but this is only for the install routine (should a network be needed during the installation). Post install, networking will default to being automatically configured by some external DHCP server. Or, fallback to self configuration, using link local addresses (169.254.0.0 to 169.254.255.255), which won't be routeable (they'll *ONLY* work internally with other devices using the same addressing scheme - addresses starting with 169.254). There's exceptions to that, but you'll probably find that they'll *ONLY* work with other devices on the same addresses. If you don't have a working DHCP server (or don't have a completely configurable one, as is often the case with modem/routers), you'd probably want to manually configure all network interfaces with fixed (static) addresses. In which case each machine should have a unique IP, and be given the address of one or more DNS servers that they can access, and the IP address of the gateway through to the internet (e.g. your modem/router). The hosts file in each computer should have a line for their own hostname and domain name, tied to their local IP, as well as the localhost address. And, if you want each machine to talk to each other using hostnames, rather than numerical IP addresses, particularly if you want SSH to work (as it checks named addresses against IPs) you'd put the same details in each machine's host file. e.g. Abusing "local" as a top level domain name, for the example: # IP domain name aliases (one or more) 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 one.local one 192.168.1.2 two.local two 192.168.1.3 three.local three Resist attempts to put machine hostnames and domain names into the top local loopback addresses line. That confuses things. If your network also uses IPv6, then there'll be an additional local loopback line like this: ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
