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>4.4. Configuring UNIX Based Systems</H1
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>If you haven't installed your network card and either re-configured the network
subsystem or recompiled your kernel with the appropriate adapter driver, do so
now. Descriptions to perform this task is beyond the scope of this document
but are covered in the Networking HOWTO.
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>Install TCP/IP networking, such as the net-tools package, if you don't have it
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>Set <STRONG
>IPADDR</STRONG
> to 192.168.0.x (1 &#60; x &#60;
255), then set <STRONG
>NETMASK</STRONG
> to 255.255.255.0,
<STRONG
>GATEWAY</STRONG
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>BROADCAST</STRONG
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>Redhat (Mandrake / TurboLinux / etc): You can edit the
<TT
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> file, or simply do so
through the Control Panel (Linuxconf).
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>Slackware: You need to edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file to configure
the network subsystem.
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>To Add: Debian, Suse, Caldera, etc. Please email dranch@trinnet.net
if you can tell me what distro uses what files to configure the networking
subsystem.
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>Beyond this, most Linux distributions use significantly different network
configuration mechanisms let alone other UNIXes such as SunOS, BSDi, Solaris,
AIX, TruUnix, FreeBSD, etc.). Please refer to your specific UNIX
documentation for more details.</P
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>Add your domain name service (DNS) and domain search suffix in
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> and for the appropreiate UNIX versions,
edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to enable DNS services.</P
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>You may also want to update your <TT
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depending on your version of UNIX and the system's settings.</P
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>Restart the appropriate services, or simply restart your system.</P
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>As an initial test, run the <TT
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>ping</TT
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>ping
192.168.0.1</TT
> to test the connection to your gateway machine.
(This is only an INTERNAL LAN connection test, so you might not be able to
<TT
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> the outside world yet.) If you don't see "replies" to
your PINGs, please verify your network configuration.</P
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