I'm sure you are better informed than me on your topic, but I thought this was particularly well written and from a great linux site https://www.linux.com/news/what-can-you-do-second-ethernet-port/ Best of luck with your linux adventures. Too many opportunities and too few brain cells here. o1bigtenor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:41 PM Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but if you do a web >> search "linux howto nfs" you might find this >> >> https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/preamble.html >> >> The old "howto"s might have other networking ideas for you. If you have >> a man page reader nfs.5 and also some manual listings in volume 8 might >> help. Suse linux pro used to include the html "howtos" in the disk set, >> as well as nice man page readers, like tkman and tkinfo, and even pdf >> books on networking. And included easy set-up tools. > > Thank you very much for the pointers!! >> >> I don't think "localhost" is the best network name to choose, however. >> It is already used, and might confuse. > > Great - - - thanks. >> >> I played with nfs many years ago, but it got silly talking to myself. So >> now I blink led light bulbs on fancy wired and programmed microcontrollers. > > Well - - - - have started working on such as well - - - - not looking > to make lights > go blinky though - - got other ideas in mind. > > Thanks for the ideas!!!! > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >