[PLUG] Unidirectional Network Commection

[Mike Connors]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
>> hy do you think the laptop is 192.168.55.5 when it seems to think it is
>> on 192.168.12.something?
>>     
>
>    Because the former is what's in /etc/hosts on the server.
>   
Rich, what's in the /etc/hosts file is a static mapping of ip addr to 
common name for the computer to use instead of DNS for name resolution. 
This is a hand edited file. The real current actual ip addr of any 
computer is not reflected in this file.

If you want to know the real current ip addrs of all the interfaces on 
the laptop run "ifconfig -a"