Marc Olivier <molivier1 at excite.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> I'm in over my head. I have Suse Linux 7.3 up and running on my system,
> but I can't make heads or tails of the documentation regarding setting
> up a network. I can tell that the network card is working by the light
> on my Ethernet hub, but that's all. I think I'm supposed to set up a
> static IP address, because I can't get DHCP to work. However, to get the
> IP address I need to do something with a Name Server. The documentation
> looks like something was written in machine code, and I have no idea
> what it means or what to do with it. Is this something that can be
> covered at a meeting?

Since this is a home network, and you're probably going to end up going
through an IP Masquerading dialup gateway, it'd be best if you use the
private address spaces allocated for just this sort of thing.  No need to
worry about what addresses you pick.

There are three different ranges you can pick

10.0.0.0    - 10.255.255.255   (one class A network, 16 million addresses)
172.16.0.0  - 172.31.255.255   (16 class B networks, 65k addresses each)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255  (256 class C networks, 256 addresses each)

I usually use addresses in the range of 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254.  In
case you don't know much about networking, the .0 and .255 addresses are
generally used for broadcast traffic (these days, much broadcast traffic
comes from Windows boxes advertising their presence to the local network),
and hosts generally shouldn't have those IP addresses ending with those
numbers.

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