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[bruce@xxxxxxxxxx (Bruce Obenour)]

I also would like to move my SUSE 5.2 box onto my cable modem but I am
confused as to setting up
DHCP.

Any ideas...or any one set up a SUSE box on a Roadrunner cable modem ?

Thanks
Bruce

At 03:52 PM 7/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>Thanks for the info. But, we already have a bootp server in the network
>(maintained by the university). All I need is to configure the machines
>in my lab with bootp.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
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>> At 12:40 PM 7/4/98 -0400, Edgar wrote:
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>> >
>> >Hi!
>> >
>> >According to YAST, (in the configure section) if I introduce the word
>> >"bootp" in the ifconfig options (that is, the section of YAST that edits
>> >the /etc/rc.config file), I will be able to get a dynamic
>> >address... How? I have not figured this out yet. Can anybody help?
>> >
>> >As of now, I have hardwired the IP addresses of all my SUSE
>> >machines. However, I am just waiting for the University networking folks
>> >to come down with an axe... Help!
>> >
>> >-- Edgar
>> 
>> You also need another machine on your subnet that is a bootp server for
>> your machine to get it's IP address at boot time.  A better/elegant
>> approach is to use DHCP.  It provisions more parameters than bootp does.
>> SuSE includes DHCP client but am not sure if the DHCP server is also
included.
>> 
>> -- Arun Khan
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