Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 02:26 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> On 5/28/2014 3:00 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 May 2014, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/28/2014 1:29 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 27 May 2014, John R Pierce wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/27/2014 5:38 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
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>>>>>>> The later editions of fedora didn't like it, so I switched to
>>>>>>> CentOS. Now I have two 64-bit machines and two monitors and a
CenturyLink
>>>>>>> router. Also a KVM switch that I have not taken out of the package.
>>>>>>> My main machine has two video connections and two ethernet
connections,
>>>>>>> eth0 and eth1 .My secondary machine sometimes runs Windows,
>>>>>>> so I'd like it not to have its own global IP address.
>>>>>>> My first thought would be to connect it directly
>>>>>>> to one of the ethernet ports on my main machine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How do I go about this?
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>>>> Why do you want to connect the two computers like this? It is usually
>>>> more trouble than it's worth unless you want to use the first computer
>>>> as a firewall or something. Just connect both of them to your router
>>>> and everything should work fine.
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>>> I want the second computer to not have its own global IP address.
>>> It will at least occasionally run Windows.
>>> I'd prefer not to assume that Windows will
>>> not try to fetch an IP address behind my back.
>> The router should have a built-in switch with multiple network jacks.
>> Just plug the new computer into the router along with the old one and
>> you should be fine.
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> This is NORMALLY true ... although some ISPs provide multiple real IP
> addresses too.
AFAIK, not unless you pay extra.
>
> It is easy enough to test though ... plug in the computer that works,
> look at its IP address, if it is in the private range (192.168.x.x,
> 10.x.x.x, 172.16..x.x to 172.31.x.x) then the provided router is
> isolating the real IP on the outside port.
>
> It is also then also normally true that internal ports are NAT'ed and
> isolated from the outside world.
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I was under the impression that the OP actually doesn't want it visible to
the world, isn't intending to browse or email via it, but that it was for
*only* inside. IF that is the case, he'd have to go into the router and
tell it to assign it an internal IP, and to *not* NAT it.
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