stick an entry for each machine in /etc/hosts or \windows\hosts whichever is appropriate. eg
192.168.0.1 machine1 192.168.0.2 machine2 192.168.0.3 machine3 etc William Benfold wrote: > > Forgive me for adding to the chaos, but I just subscribed yesterday, about > 18 hours ago. When I checked my mail today, I had 512 messages, and new > ones are appearing at a rate of one every couple of minutes. Someone please > tell me this isn't normal! How do you people cope with this volume of > traffic? > > Anyway... > > I have one Debian machine on a network with three other machines, all > running win95/98. All the machines have Realtek 8029 PCI cards (NE2000 > clones). They are all connected with BNC cable. > > I have just managed to get the linux machine talking to the network, but I'm > having a problem: whenever I telnet in from windoze, the connection opens, > and then there's a big delay before the login prompt is displayed. In fact, > I've timed this delay, and it is always more or less exactly 2 mins and 30 > secs. Once the login prompt is displayed, all is fine, any delays are > unnoticably short. The network experiences only very light load, spending > most of the time idle. > > It's fine when I telnet from the linux machine back onto itself, with > "telnet localhost", so I guess it's something with the adapter? > > I think the same thing is happening with ftp, but my DOS ftp client seems to > timeout after 60secs, but this may be just misconfiguration on my part. > > Using smbclient, I have transfered files (.deb) from win98 machines; there > is no strange delay, and the transfer speed is about 500-750K/sec (10Mb/sec > card on BNC cable remember). > > What could this be? Am I missing something in my startup scripts, or am I > missing a parameter to ifconfig? I am using "ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.4 up". > I have tried changing txqueuelen and turning on promiscuous mode (I'll admit > I don't fully understand what they do, and I can't see how changing them > would help, but I've been desperate for anything to try). > > Can anyone help me - two and a half minutes can seem awfully long! > > Thanks in advance to anyone who can help, > > Will > > P.S. If you reply, please CC a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I might > not see it in all this mess... > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
