On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 08:51, Vijay A Raghavan wrote: > Hello, > > I have 2 FC-4 machines each having 2 lan ports. One > port from each machine is hooked up to the internet. I > am wordering how to set up a private network between > the two machines using the second lan port. > > Thanks, Two ways, use a cross over cable between the two systems, manually configure IP addresses on each interface using a subnet defined in RFC 1918 that does not match the subnet used for the Internet side connection. Or you can use a switch to connect those interfaces to. You will still need to manually configure the interfaces using a unique subnet. Will probably want to populate the /etc/hosts file on each system to specify the private address and associate that with a system name that you can use to transfer data over the private network. Do these systems use a common Internet connection through a router? If so they can communicate over that router through the currently active interfaces.
