Network Question

[Daniel Nang]

Aloha,

Sounds like an interesting setup. Do you have one machine acting as a
gateway?


On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Al Plant <noc at hdk5.net> wrote:

> 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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