9 Remarks on the Network Configuration

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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:

  1. Create a file \tcpip\etc\hosts with the following content:
    127.0.0.1  localhost
    
  2. Add the following line to your \tcpip\bin\tcpstart.cmd:
    ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up
    
  3. Uncomment the inetd process in the same file.
  4. Set the HOSTNAME environment variable to localhost as described in the last section.
  5. Add the following line to CONFIG.SYS:
    SET USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1
    
  6. After rebooting, verify that the following command works:
    [C:\] ping localhost
    

If you have problems to get this or other basic networking things running, seek assistance elsewhere.

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