Hallo Everyone,
I have a VM-Ware Player client running a webserver which I can access fine when I set both the client and the host to DHCP: I just run ifconfig, see what the ip-addresses are and then access the client (with the webserver) over the browser from the host. Perfect!
The configuration here is an Ubuntu host speaking to a Fedora client where the webserver is installed.
However, in order to mimic some live behaviour I need to set static ip-addresses on both the client and the host (instead of DCHP). As it is I have set the static ip-addresses for both, given them the same gateway and restarted networking (on both). With ifconfig each seems to have acquired the given ip-addresses. But, arrgghh, I find I can neither ping nor access the client as I could with DCHP.
What might I be doing wrong? Can someone point me to a HOWTO on this topic? Or maybe you have a tip?
Once I get the static ip-addresses working, then I want to get it running independent of the network (so that I can do demos when I am not on-line) but am not sure how to do this (i.e. the PC itself would need to mimic a router). Do I need to run DNS on that computer? Can anyone point me to to a HOWTO on this.
Many, many thanks for any tips that you can give me.
Regards and thanks,
Alan
