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- <qml title="Set Up Networking">
-
- <h1>Set Up Networking</h1>
-
- <p>
- This page will let you configure <a href="def_tcpip.qml">TCP/IP</a>
- networking for Ethernet devices. If the computer uses dial-up
- networking or is connected to a different type of network, please
- set up networking <em>after</em> OpenLinux is completely installed.
- For information on how to set up other types of network devices,
- please see <b>http://support.calderasystems.com</b>.
- </p>
-
-
- <h3>Configuration Parameters</h3>
-
- <p>
- The fields break down as such:
- </p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><b>IP Address:</b> - The actual address of your machine on the
- network you are connecting to.
- <li><b>Netmask:</b> - Indicates which of the four bytes in the
- address are used for the network specification. The number(s)
- left over specify individual machine addresses. A
- byte is masked as a network specifier by entering <b>255</b>
- in its position (for instance, a netmask of 255.255.255.0
- indicates that the first three bytes hold values that make
- up the actual network address, leaving the last, un-masked byte
- to be used for individual machine addresses).
- <li><b>Gateway:</b> - This is the address of the machine that
- acts as a portal out to another network, most commonly
- out to the Internet.
- <li><b>Name server:</b> - The machine pointed to here runs a server
- package that translates machine names to IP addresses (for
- instance, it would take <b>www.calderasystems.com</b> and
- translate it to <b>207.179.39.7</b>).
- <li><b>Backup #1:</b> - Here, you specify a backup name server in
- case the main one becomes inaccessible.
- <li><b>NIS domain:</b> - If your machine is going to be connected
- to a network that is to be managed by NIS, enter the NIS domain
- in this field. Otherwise, leave it blank.
- <li><b>Hostname:</b> - Enter the full name for your machine, domain
- and all (for instance, if your machine name is "fred" and you
- are on a network that uses "void.com" as a domain name, you
- would enter "fred.void.com" in this field).
- </ul>
-
-
- <p>
- If you are setting up a private network, i.e. a network that
- is not directly connected to the Internet, the following might
- be helpful:
- </p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>A range of addresses is reserved by the TCP/IP
- protocol specifications that you can use for private,
- "class C" networks: 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.0. You
- can safely use any addresses in this range for your
- individual machines as long as no two machines on the same
- network share the same IP address.
- <li>Unless you wish to split your network into "subnets",
- 255.255.255.0 should be used as your netmask.
- <li>Unless your network is connected to another network through
- another machine running TCP/IP, do not specify a gateway
- address! Only use this if you are actually "gating" out
- to a separate network. An example of this is a network that
- has one machine that is actually connected to the Internet
- while all other machines pipe out to the Internet through it.
- That first, Internet-connected machine would be the gateway
- for the other machines. Those who only access the
- Internet through a modem typically do <em>not</em>
- specify a gateway address here.
- </ul>
-
-
- <h3>No Ethernet</h3>
-
- <p>
- This option skips the configuration of Ethernet devices completely.
- You will, however, be able to select a host name for your system.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Use this option if you will not be directly connected to an
- Ethernet network or if you want to do configuration later.
- You can configure other types of network adapters and dial-up
- networking with <em>COAS</em> after the installation is
- complete.
- </p>
-
-
- <h3>Ethernet configured statically</h3>
-
- <p>
- If you have an Ethernet card and wish to manually configure
- <a href="def_tcpip.qml">TCP/IP</a> networking, select this
- option. Then enter your machine's networking parameters into
- the appropriate fields. Whatever you do, do not randomly select
- addresses to enter in these fields! If you are already on a
- TCP/IP network, you could very easily take someone else's address
- if you are not careful.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If there is a DHCP server on the network, you can simply enter
- the IP address. Your computer will then query the server and
- fill in the remaining parameters.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- You should use this option if you want to manually assign the
- computer┤s IP address, or if you have no DHCP server on your network.
- </p>
-
-
- <h3>Ethernet configured by DHCP</h3>
-
- <p>
- This option tells your computer to automatically get its
- networking configuration from a DHCP server on the network.
- When configured with this option, the computer will also
- query the DHCP server every time it boots, dynamically
- updating its configuration.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Use this option if you have a DHCP server set up for your
- network and want your networking configured dynamically.
- </p>
-
- </qml>
-