Network Question

[Al Plant]

Eugene wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> The easiest way is to check the LAN Config (or similar) page of the 
> router. They usually allow one to specify fixed IP and hostname for the 
> DHCP clients based on the MAC addresses.
> 
> Best wishes
> Eugene
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Nang
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:16 PM
> To: Adam Vande More
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Network Question
> 
> That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked
> something like
> this, except that for the ip address I always put the machine's name as in:
> 
> machine1# ssh user at machine2.example.com
> 
> which results in
> 
> ssh: Could not resolve hostname machine2.example.com: hostname nor servname
> provided, or not known
> 
> I think the problem here lies with the /etc/hosts file where machine1 and
> machine2 have
> to be registered respectively. The thing here is that the ip isn't static
> which makes
> this approach somewhat difficult to realize.
> 
> Got it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Adam Vande More 
> <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Nang 
>> <daniel.nang01 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have two computers, both running FreeBSD, accessing the
>>> web via DHCP from the router. The setup looks like this:
>>>
>>>
>>>                                        Internet
>>>                                             |
>>>                                             |
>>>                                             |
>>> machine1.example.com --- Router --- machine.2.example.com
>>>          - DHCP -                                            - DHCP -
>>>
>>>
>>> Both computers can access the internet with no problems.
>>> So far so good...
>>>
>>> My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access
>>> the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with
>>> each other e.g. via ssh?
>>>
>>
>>
>> machine1# ssh `ip of machine2`
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Adam Vande More
>>
> _______________________________________________
> #########

Aloha,

For many years I have 8 Freebsd boxes behind a PF firewall on a static 
labeled lan. Only one public address feeds the lan.  All the boxes can 
work the internet and can ssh.

I found that easier than dhcp.

:)

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