[plug] Quakeathon

[John Summerfield]

> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> > Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> > 
> > > I'll also try VERY hard to get a 10/100 16 port switch to act as our back
> bone
> > 
> > Yay! Actual network performance! (-:
> > 
> > > Do we want to run dhcp or should we agree on the network details before h
> and
> > 
> > Yes. Let DHCP loose in *.2-*.127 and allocate *.128-*.253 manually?
> 
> Shall we say
> 
> Network= 192.168.0.0
> Netmask= 255.255.255.0
> DNS    = 192.168.0.1
> Gateway= 192.168.0.254 # if we actually have one.
> domain = plug ???
> 
> Then we can say 10->127 as static IP's for those that want them
> and 128->253 as Dhcp.
> 
> With the static addresses we could even allocate them before the meet.
> thatway the "DNS" admin can setup zone files etc etc for services like
> Quake, Quake2, Quake3, Halflife, ftp, irc, debian, redhat etc etc.
> 
> what sayith ya'll .. if we get organised early then we can probably spend ver
> y
> little time actually setting up.
> 
> PS: as I'm "named" I'll do the DNS stuff if noone else minds ??

You might as well do the DHCP as well. I set one up recently, it wasn't 
specially difficult. I you want a working config, say so.

I also have a script that makes a floppy that boots and mounts everything 
by nfs: it requires some directores to be set up on the server. I export 
and mount /usr ro: /bin could be too. Each machine requires its own /etc 
and /var.


The kernel must have the NIC driver compiled in: I couldn't get modules to 
work, and the docs I read says the support MUST be compiled in.

I also have  a .config that works for 2.2.10 and NE2000.


The boot floppy's useful for those who want to boot Linux on a box that 
doesn't have it installed: I can run RHL and Win95 on a machine with 400 
Mb HDD.




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John Summerfield
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