[H-GEN] routing, subnets, and TCP/IP

[Byron Ellacott]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Byron Ellacott" <bellacott at hotmail.com>)

[martin pool answered the rest]

>The rest I'll try to absorb gradually by sketching it out on paper  .....
>however I don't need to mess with firewalls or DHCP immediately if they
>aren't strictly essential to basic functionality so is there any other
>reason I need to be concerned with that stuff ??

no.

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bje







or, the longer answer

DHCP is the protocol behind clicking "Obtain an IP address automatically" in 
Win95.  It's handy for keeping one central configuration of things like DNS 
servers, gateways, and IP addresses, and makes installation of new machines 
much simpler.

It's not essential, just handy.

Firewalls, most people consider essential.  They are definitely needed if 
you're doing IP Masquerading, because you need to tell the kernel to 
actually do the masqing.

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bje


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