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[LinuxAdvocate@xxxxxxxxx (George Toft)]

George H. Yeager wrote:
> 
> George:
> 
> I have not accomplished this yet (permanently).  I have been on RR with SuSE
> 6.0.  You just have to set up your IP/Mask/DNS info and go.  

Did that using YaST.

> You'll
> eventually need a DHCPCD package (free).  

Why do I need the daemon?  Don't I just need the client?

> Look around the web to find it.
> 

OK - I'll bite.  Why did it work flawlessly when I rebooted 
several times?  Doing the math, the DHCP client said it
got a lease for 1800 minutes, which is 10 hours.  That's
about when the whole system collapsed.  Why would eth1
(the non-DHCP'd interface) suddenly lose its routing?
When I got to the machine (two reboots later), the dummy
interface had eth0's parameters, eth0 was 0.0.0.0, and
eth1 was OK (192.168.1.254).  Total weirdness - never saw 
the likes with RedHat's DHCP.  OBTW - RedHat's distribution 
of Gnome LinuxConf has YaST begging for mercy (and I thought
YaST was cool compared to Red Hat's control-panel).

The DHCP client I was using is the one on the SuSE website.

SuSE makes an awesome workstation, but I can't get it
to route for beans.

Anyway, being the money-grubbing capitalist republican that
I am, I'm going to focus on where the money is, and in the
US,
RedHat's got the ticket.  At least I can acknowledge whose
slave I am.

> It is available with good installation instructions.  

The one that Lenz pointed me to has excellent instructions.

> I'll see if I can find
> them this evening.

That's ok.  Red Hat's working fine.  Thanks anyway.

George
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