[KLUG Members] Networking with Windows

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>I was using the IP number
>Ping 192.168.1.100

Abd you just got nothing in response, or a request timed out, etc...

>Now the one thing I am not familiar with is if you
>have multiple NICs in a machine do you have to specify
>what one you are using like you do when you start 
>DHCPD should I be doing Ping Eth1 192.168.1.100??

No, IP routing takes care of all that.  You can check your routing table with
"netstat -rn".  DHCP needs the specification because it operates below IP, as
the clients don't have IPs yet.

>sorry for seeming stupid it has been almost 2 years
>since I have worked with Linux and then it was just in
>a workstation setting. 

You should go take a look at
ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/TCPIP.pdf