On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, ayeats wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have a few basic networking questions.

Sean-Paul gave a lot of good advice. I'll just add a few notes.

> 1. How do you set the IP address for the machine, also will it recognise 
> the ethernet card that I have in there, how do I specify to use the card 
> for all TCP/IP requests?

Interfaces (ethernet cards) have IP addresses, not the whole computer. If
you set up IP-NAT (what Linux calls masquerading (sp?)), you'll have two
interfaces, each with its own interface.

The routing table says what packets will go where. One of the IP routes
will be "default" which is where requests for addresses not directly
reachable go. I.E. the rest of the net.

> 2. Even in root, when I cd to the games folder (/usr/games I think) it 
> won't let me open any of them? Do I have to move them to /usr/bin? Or do 
> I need to give myself access to them? 

Do an ls-l to see what's up. Most of the games go through a control
program, so that folks don't load a production machine down playing games.

> 4. How do I get files over to the machine, how do I "mount" a floppy? 
> Does it even recognise a floppy? How about a zip drive?

NetBSD/mac68k doesn't support floppies. :-( SCSi zip drives will show up
just like hard disks, though.

> 5. If I have a cable modem, two ethernet cards (on the unix machine) and 
> a hub, how do I share it with the rest of the house? Proxy? Ip 
> Masquerading? Whichever is best and what should I use? gated, routed, 
> mrouted? How do I set these up? Remember, VERY Basic!

There's a IP-NAT how to which should be pointed to from the mac68k web
pages. Don't use gated, routed, or mrouted. You won't need to for that
setup, and I've had problems w/ gated deleting routes when it didn't find
another gated to talk to.

> 6. I have set up a bunch of users, but how do I manipulate their 
> privelages and disk space quotas? How about the privelages and quotas of 
> a group? If I do both, which takes prescedence?
> 
> 7. So that you won't have to answer as many questions in the future, 
> where (physical, metaphycal, mental, internet, whatever) is there a guide 
> to UNIX (netBSD mac68k port would be perfect) for new roots? Almost all 
> the guides I have seen have been either highly specialized or for people 
> with shell accounts at a college or university, almost none for people 
> who are beginning with setting up their own system.

Go looking around on www.netbsd.org and www.macbsd.com.

Take care,

Bill