On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:05:15PM -0600, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > > > I am reading an O'Reilly book, "TCP/IP Network Administration", and >there is something said which does not make any sense to me. Is there >someone who might be able to explain the meaning behind this: > > TCP/IP CH 6 - Configuring the Interface > > "When networking protocols work only with a single kind of physical >network, there is no need to identify the network interface to the >software. The software knows what the interface MUST be; no configuration >issues are left for the administrator." It means you don't need to tell your browser, ftp client, or whatever that it needs to use eth0. It knows it needs to follow a certain path and the tcp/ip stack handles that. I would need to look at it ini more contextext in order to say for certain that this is what the ¶aragraph means but this is my guess. > > This doesn't make sense to me, because if I set up a machine with an >ethernet card in it, I still have to configure that interface. I tell it >what IP address to use. Even if I only have one ethernet card, and no >other interfaces installed, this is so. Why would they say something like >this? What do they mean that if there is only one physical interface it >doesn't need to be configured? > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org >For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- Ben Lutgens Cell: 651.387.9065 Home: 651.703.9541 Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (T)hrowup -------------------------------------------------------------------------------