Setup for a static ethernet connection

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 10/05/2014 07:54:40 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> On 10/05/14 03:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one.
> 
> In that case you could only connect to computers within the same
> subnet 
> as your network interface, apparently 198.168.20.0 in your case. If
> you 
> want to connect to other computers outside of this subnet, you need a 
> gateway. You probably also need a gateway to do name resolution, 
> depending on how you have setup that.
> 
> Can you ping computers on your subnet? Using their IP-address?
> 
> Lars

Thanks, Lars. Accesses outside the local net is not required.

Yes, a ping to the IP address responds correctly.