If something fracks up your terminal, just type in 'reset' and everything should be good again.

The really awesome bash completion in debian seems to be an extra package now, which has to be installed. After sourcing /etc/bash_completion it completes almost everything (package names in apt... etc) :-) To make this permanent, put something like this in your .bashrc: if [ -f /etc/bash_completion]; then source /etc/bash_completion fi

If the connection works you should see a "hello" on host A. If not: check your cabeling etc :-)

Quick shortcut if you know the hostname and want to save yourself one step for looking up the IP address separately.

Force the user you want to watch doing things into doing his things in a screen session. Then simply attach yourself to that session with the command shown above. Works only if you are on the same machine, of course

kpartx can be found inside of the multipath-tools package -a adds the mappings and -d deletes them Show Sample Output

with 'mii-tool -w eth0' you can watch the interface for changes of the link status Show Sample Output

After the command is done, open the html file in a browser