From: Joe Hunt 

No, 192.168.0/24 is equivalent to saying the network portion of the ip
address consists of the first 24 bits, the host of the last 8 bits. It is
equivalent to a netmask of 255.255.255.0

I downloaded the user guide for your firewall device, and the information
for reserving an ip address came from that.  Perhaps the firmware for your
device is later and contains enhancements to the built-in web browser
configuration utility.  I don't know why there would be a need for a name
in reserving an ip address, because the association is between a hardware
device, identified by a MAC or hardware address, and an ip address.  So, I
don't know what name the firewall box may be referring to.  You linux box's
host name can be seen by giving the command

        uname -n

The reason I suggested doing it this way (reserving an ip address for your
linux box at the firewall) is that your linux box gets more than an ip
address from the dhcp server (e.g. it gets one or more nameserver
addresses, a gateway address, and a netmask), and I thought that it would
be easier than configuring a static ip address on your linux box.

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:09:57 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>Joe Hunt wrote:
>
>
>> You can leave your linux box configured to accept an ip address via
>> DHCP, but use your Netgear firewall to reserve an ip address for it,
>> so that it never changes.  By default, your Netgear uses 192.168.0/24
>> and so you should tell it to reserve an ip address in this range (say,
>> 192.168.0.10 for discussion purposes).
>
>I'm guessing that was supposed to be 0/254.
>
>> With your browser, log into your firewall
>> (http://www.routerlogin.net), from main menu, advanced, LAN IP setup,
>> click add at the bottom of the screen, enter the ip address in the
>> appropriate box, enter your linux ethernet card's MAC address in the
>> appropriate box, click apply.
>
>They also ask for Device Name. Their help says "and Device Name of the
>computer you wish to add". Okay, maybe I assigned a name to the Linux
>box when I installed Linux. But I do not remember doing so. Where would
>I go to do that?
>
>>
>> (from a command prompt, /sbin/ifconfig eth0 will show your MAC
>> address, assuming ifconfig is located the same place as in Slackware,
>> and assuming that your ethernet card in the linux box is eth0)
>>

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