Very Computer

hello everybody! I just downloaded again linux faq's and howto's but
still i'm pretty  unsure about this question,please don't post
any RTFM because i've already done that ! :)

So my friend has two linux machines: other is Whale.fi which has
random ip created (130.149.5.40) and other is mobydick.fi
(130.149.5.41) now how we can make these machine to "communicate"
with each others? As faar as i've read that NET-2 and other similar
files i've come to conclusion that it might work with this combination

in whale.fi:            /sbin/ifconfig -add net 130.149.5.40
                                                eth0(whale.fi)

                        /sbin/route -add net 130.149.5.41 (route into
                                                mobydick)

and in mobydick.fi     /sbin/ifconfig -add net 130.149.41
                                        eth0(mobydick.fi)
                        /sbin/route -add net 130.149.5.40 (whale.fi)

Now does these machines "coomunicate" after these lines or do i have
to setup gateway into both machines? and what about Nameserver setup
is is just chekking that resolv.conf,/etc/hosts are fine and then
running NAMED?

We've installed Red Hat 2.0 into both machines.

if you can rather than into this area!                            

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http://beyond.malmo.lth.se/~gps/Raven/SSR03/ssr03_06_tcp_interfaces.h...
http://beyond.malmo.lth.se/~gps/Raven/SSR01/ssr01_04_ip_addr.html

        Also Issue-1 has an article about allocating IP_addresses at random,
        and what is a netmask.

        I think that your problem is that you are passing the -net parameter
        to ifconfig, that shouldn't do anything???.

        You are configuring the device, a single point, not the
        route to the net, so on each host:

        IPADDR=130.149.5.40     # "my" single address
        NETWORK=130.149.5.0     # network range
        NETMASK=255.255.255.0   # define range as a bitmask

         /sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR}
         /sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK}

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