[wellylug] April Meeting

[Richard Hector]

Mark Henson wrote:
> 
> The hub I have is an 8 port hub - we can either pre assign IP's in the 192.168.1.x
> range or demonstrate the functioning of dhcp and why its a really good idea :)
> for both winxx and linux/unix

This is all souding great - I haven't been to a meeting yet, but I'll
have a car that night, so I'll try & be there.

Maybe someone can help me get DHCP going on my laptop - I had it going
with Slackware but never since I installed Debian.

> Kay and Lindsay Hunter wrote:
> 
> > Right. So we are agreed. We will set up a temporary network. Perhaps we
> > could pre- assign IP's? Explaining that would help understand better what
> > needs occur. Each participant would bring a LAN cable to join themselves to
> > the hub. Make is a long one? We need at least one hub. I shall bring my
> > four port plus link hub. I will also bring a crossover cable to connect it
> > to another hub, should that be needed, and to demonstrate the linking of
> > hubs? Better be redundant than missing one element in the chain.

You realise, of course, that you don't need both an uplink port _and_ a
crossover cable?

I'll try to bring a hub too, and maybe some coax :-)

Richard