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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!wetware!kaiwan.com!kaiwan!speed From: speed@kaiwan.com (Kevin R. Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Network configuration Date: 10 Mar 1994 17:24:57 -0800 Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <speed.763348531@kaiwan> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaiwan.kaiwan.com Summary: I need help setting my machine's IP address Keywords: 386BSD HOSTS LOCALHOST CONFIGURATION HELP I'm in the process of editting my hosts, rc.local, etc. files so that someone may login to my machine over Ethernet using telnet. I am running 386BSD 0.1 on a 386SX with a NE2000 compatible card. My hosts files looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost This is necessary to make the daemons happy. I also include: 1.1.1.1 netvan This is what I hope the name and IP address will be. In the networks file I have: 255.255.255.0 my-netmask I can ping 127.0.0.1 but 1.1.1.1 does not work. Telnetting to 127.0.0.1 immediately fails but 1.1.1.1 just sits there retrying I assume. I can put things back they way they were right after installation. Can someone please tell me what to put in these files so that the name is netvan.com and the IP address is 1.1.1.1 and the network mask is 255.255.255.0 ? I suppose I'll also need to add an ifconfig somewhere. This machine will not be linked to any other machines, only client PCs running telnet so I don't need any equivalent hosts or routes, etc. Kevin Bailey speed@kaiwan.com