RE: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2
Your DHCP server will, more than likely, hand out the same IP address to
the
same mac address of the workstation's nic. I wish. My DHCP server at home is a Motorola voip terminal adapter....
Set up your Suse box to be the DHCP server an disable the service on your Motorola. It is easy to do in Yast and should solve your problems. ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James D. Parra wrote:
Set up your Suse box to be the DHCP server an disable the service on your Motorola. It is easy to do in Yast and should solve your problems.
That would be nice but not practical. The SuSE box is my sons PC which is dual boot with Windows XP so it can't be relied on for serving DHCP. The only other computer that could be used is the Ultra 20 with Solaris 10. Making it a DHCP server wouldn't be too hard but I can't do that. I am preparing the Ultra 20 to be my home router instead of the Motorola box. Right now the Ultra 20 is on the inside of my home net and is set to get its address by DHCP because eventually it will be getting its address from Comcast by DHCP. For now the configuration I have to use is with the Ultra 20 DHCP and all other PCs fixed address. The other PCs don't have any need to be DHCP and it makes sure that the Ultra 20 will always get the same address. I suppose you might be thinking "why am I trying to do with Solaris what is a piece of cake with SuSE?" For me this is mostly an excercise in learning Solaris. I am in a new group at work that is using a lot of Solaris so I am trying to learn some things on my own. There is actually a small need in one lab to make a Solaris NAT router but no one wants to bother spending the time to figure out how to do it. The sad part is that I have had this Ultra 20 for a year and have gotten it to be a decent Samba server but have never figured out how to make ipfilter do a NAT router/firewall Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 05 March 2007, Damon Register wrote:
Making it a DHCP server wouldn't be too hard but I can't do that. I am preparing the Ultra 20 to be my home router instead of the Motorola box. Right now the Ultra 20 is on the inside of my home net and is set to get its address by DHCP because eventually it will be getting its address from Comcast by DHCP.
So why can't you do that? If It make sense to run the ultra 20 as a router it also makes sense to run it as a DHCP server. You might need to hard-code its "soon-to-be-external" nic with an IP and make that single change when you promote it to router status, but other than that I see no impediment to having it serve as a dhcp server for your net. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
John Andersen wrote:
So why can't you do that? Perhaps because the Solaris learning curve is a slow one for me.
You might need to hard-code its "soon-to-be-external" nic with an IP and make that single change when you promote it to router status, but other than that I see no impediment to having it serve as a dhcp server for your net. I suppose I could have it a fixed address in order to solve the DHCP problem but then it would make impossible to learn how to set it up to be a NAT router just like I have done in the past with SuSE. The interface that is currently on the home net is the one that will be connected to Comcast eventually. In order for me to learn how to make Solaris get a DHCP address on that interface and to learn how to configure ipfilter to do NAT routing with a DHCP interface, it has to be this way. Right now the home net is the ISP to the Ultra 20 so therefore something else besides the Ultra 20 has to serve DHCP. I am using the home net as a test and learning environment for Solaris. I don't suppose you have any experience with Solaris? While there are forums for Solaris, it isn't as good as this list and so far I haven't been successful in getting ipfilter to work.
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