I'm sure you are better informed than me on your topic, but I thought 
this was particularly well written and from a great linux site

https://www.linux.com/news/what-can-you-do-second-ethernet-port/

Best of luck with your linux adventures. Too many opportunities and too 
few brain cells here.

o1bigtenor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:41 PM Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but if you do a web
>> search "linux howto nfs" you might find this
>>
>> https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/preamble.html
>>
>> The old "howto"s might have other networking ideas for you. If you have
>> a man page reader nfs.5 and also some manual listings in volume 8 might
>> help. Suse linux pro used to include the html "howtos" in the disk set,
>> as well as nice man page readers, like tkman and tkinfo, and even pdf
>> books on networking. And included easy set-up tools.
>
> Thank you very much for the pointers!!
>>
>> I don't think "localhost" is the best network name to choose, however.
>> It is already used, and might confuse.
>
> Great - - - thanks.
>>
>> I played with nfs many years ago, but it got silly talking to myself. So
>> now I blink led light bulbs on fancy wired and programmed microcontrollers.
>
> Well - - - - have started working on such as well - - - - not looking
> to make lights
> go blinky though - - got other ideas in mind.
>
> Thanks for the ideas!!!!
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