[tulip] - Newbie - Problems with installing the tulip.o modul

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, David Kramer wrote:

> I ran the ifup eth0 first and it returned usage: ifup <device name> not sure
> why it didnt recognize it.

Because you haven't configured your networking yet.

>  After I ran the other command ifconfig eth0
> 192.168.1.1 and then ifconfig it found the eth0.  Does the ifconfig eth0....
> assign a specific IP address to the eth0 interface?

Yes.  That was just in case the 'ifup' command failed

> And why use 192.168.1.1?

That's one of the private network addresses.
If you have a private internal network you should use 192.168.1.*

> I dont really understand that command?  Also will I need to reassign the
> eth0 everytime after a reboot or will it be done automatically?

It will all be done automatically once you configure you IP addresses in
whatever tool your distribution provides.

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