It is beyond the scope of this document to even give an introduction about the correct installation of the TCP/IP networking system. You must do this yourself or seek assistance elsewhere. It is only possible to say here that a PC working well in a TCP/IP based LAN network will also work with XFree86/OS2 (when all other prerequisites are matched as well).
With IAK, there is a special configuration necessary, unless you want to use XFree86/OS2 only during a hot link to your Internet provider, the so called ``localhost'' or ``loopback'' configuration. This is a local network interface which ``loops'' back to the same host. The following settings are necessary for this:
\tcpip\etc\hosts
with the
following content:
127.0.0.1 localhost
\tcpip\bin\tcpstart.cmd
:
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up
inetd
process in the same file.localhost
as described
in the last section.
SET USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1
[C:\] ping localhost
If you have problems to get this or other basic networking things running, seek assistance elsewhere.
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