Any ifconfig or route statements you do are not permanent, you can play around with them and reboot if you get into trouble (or just do an /etc/init.d/networking restart (or whatever your distro's happens to be). Also the add-net 192.168.1.0 is not necessary as when you configure the interface with that IP it automatically is entered into the routing table. --j On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Tom Poe <tompoe at meltel.net> wrote: > Would like to confirm if I understand home network routing correctly. > > I want to open terminal on each computer, and type the following, > assuming each computer has assigned static IP address: > ># sudo ifconfig eht0 192.168.1.66 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > ># sudo route add-net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > ># sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 > > I hate to run the commands, if I cause permanent change and can't undo > it. Is this the steps I take? > Thanks, Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100912/f84f52d8/attachment.htm