[KLUG Members] Can someone critique this for me?

[Mike Morrett]

Hi Buddies,

I'm going to sent the following to the IPCop mailing list, can someone
critique it for me?

Thanks,
Mike

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Thanks to "Paul Bruce" <paulbruce@ozemail.com.au> , I now have a
working mixed Linux/Windows networking environment.

What I am really saying is, other than the IPCop /etc/hosts, I do
NOT have to add ANY entries to ANY Linux/Windows hosts files!

My IP ranges:
192.168.1.101 - .125  Fixed/static leases for my permanent
                      machines, and ONLY in the IPCop /etc/hosts.
192.168.1.126 - .150  Visiting or temporary machines.

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My IPCop setup...

GREEN local network card and RED dialup modem.

DHCP server:

[x] Enabled

Start address      : 192.168.1.126
End address        : 192.168.1.150
Primary DNS        : 192.168.1.1 (Same IP I assigned to IPCop)
Secondary DNS      :
Default lease      : whatever
Max lease          : whatever
Domain name suffix : mydomain.com

MAC Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx     IP Address: 192.168.1.101
MAC Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx     IP Address: 192.168.1.102
MAC Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx     IP Address: 192.168.1.103
MAC Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx     IP Address: 192.168.1.104
               ^
               |
(YES, must be colon, NOT "-".)

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1        localhost
192.168.1.1      ipcop.mydomain.com ipcop # IPCop firewall
192.168.1.101    mikey.mydomain.com mikey # My PC (W2K or RH8.0)
192.168.1.102    green.mydomain.com green # W2K Family PC
192.168.1.103    samba.mydomain.com samba # RH7.3 Samba/NFS srv
192.168.1.104    laser.mydomain.com laser # HP4MV LaserJet
                                          # printer with J2552B
                                          # JetDirect card
                                          # using DHCP

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On the W2K machines, I checked "Obtain an IP address
automatically" and "Obtain DNS server address automatically".

On the Linux machines, as root, I ran "setup" and chose "Network
configuration", and "Use dynamic IP configuration (BOOTP/DHCP)".

That's all I did and it works great!

Mike Morrett

P.S. Again, thanks to Paul Bruce and all the people who helped him.