On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:24:39PM +0700, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Followed the discussion about "Suse 9.3 DNS server setup" and found in one of the possible solutions the sentence "1) disable dhcp on you router".
For me my router is something that I hung at a wall, that is connected with the ADSL phone line and my computer. It works and as a matter of fact I do not know what it does. Is there some way to find out what the router does? If I could disable dhcp, how could I restore it. Where to find out more about the innards of routers. Google was not the solution to learn something about routers in my case.
DHCP is a mechanism by which machines can connect to a network without you having to allocate them an IP address manually. One machine (the DHCP server) assumes the job of handing out IP addresses to anyone who asks for them, making sure that no two machines have the same address. Most ADSL routers have the ability to be a DHCP server, so that you don't have to set the IP address of your computer (or any other computers that you connect to it). However, if you want to fix the IP address of your computer, it might cause a problem. Most ADSL routers can be configured over a web interface. Work out the IP address of your router by running "route" on your machine, and write down the IP address in the "gateway" column of the line whose destination is "default". Then try pointing your web browser at http://ip_address/. If this doesn't work, you will need to post more details on the list - in particular, what make and model is your ADSL router? For more info on what routers do, how DHCP works, etc., you need to read some of the networking HOWTOs, and/or some books on basic TCP/IP networking. HTH... -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2