[SunRescue] Re: Problems booting my IPC

[Shawn Boyette]

 > > Joerg Raedler wrote:
 > >
 > > Probably more to the point, considering that my LAN doesn't reach
 > > outside my office via the Ethernet, does it really matter what the 
 > > ethernet address is for the IPC as long as it is different from 
 > > the other systems on the LAN?

If the machines on your LAN don't have valid IP addresses (they don't
all have direct connections to the internet) then you should be using
IPs from the series which are set aside for just this purpose in
RFC1597:

     -----------------------------------------------------------
     |         RESERVED PRIVATE NETWORK ALLOCATIONS            |
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     | Network | Netmask       | Network Addresses             |
     | Class   |               |                               |
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     |    A    | 255.0.0.0     | 10.0.0.0    - 10.255.255.255  |
     |    B    | 255.255.0.0   | 172.16.0.0  - 172.31.255.255  |
     |    C    | 255.255.255.0 | 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 |
     -----------------------------------------------------------

Nifty chart taken from the Linux NET3-HOWTO.

-- 
Shawn Boyette, Programmer -- mdxi at collapsar.cx
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