On Sunday 28 April 2002 20:28, Brian W. Carver wrote:
Hi,
I installed the "default system with office" on my "server" computer and
the installation was perfect. That computer was online via DHCP (cable modem) on the very first bootup. :-)
I have minimal linux experience, although I did recently manage to get Debian running well enough on this same computer to share my internet connection among the other computers on the home lan. (When 8.0 arrived
though I formatted that hard drive because I couldn't get Debian to do a
lot of other stuff I wanted.) This means though that I now mostly understand the dhcpd.conf file that stumped me for so long.
Problem is, I don't see how to share the internet now on SuSE. I used Yast2 to install dhcp-base (dhcpcd is already installed) but even when logged in as root it can't find a command dhcpd and it sure doesn't run on startup. Also, after installation of dhcp-base with Yast2 it didn't even put a sample dhcpd.conf file in /etc, which makes me wonder if there is some further step in the installation process after using Yast2. I don't want to do this the hard way if SuSE has somehow automated the process. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
Brian, You're going to have to read up on using iptables. Start out by reading the documentation about SuSEfirewall2. In spite of the trouble that some people are reporting with it, SuSEfirewall2 gave me no trouble at all. Kevin -- Bandwidth is a lot like money; the more you have, the more you want.