Once you establish connection with the server computer, you are assigned the 192.168.0.2 IP address and the faith.centos.org name. On the other side, the server computer has the 192.168.0.1 IP address and the projects.centos.org name. In both cases, the addresses provided are inside the 192.168.0/24 network. The configuration would look as the following example illustrates: The Server Computer The Client Computer ----------------------- ----------------------- 192.168.0.1/24 | Modem ~~~ TelephoneLine ~~~ Modem | 192.168.0.2/24 ----------------------- ----------------------- projects.centos.org faith.centos.org Notice that, before you can use this IP addresses and names, they must be firstly configured that way by the system administrator. See ..., to know how to configure the IP addresses and names in the server computer.