I have never been able to get my firewall working with DHCP. I've tried a couple of times, each time spending a Saturday on it, but both times I couldn't get the network to assign an address. That was with 6.4 and dhclient. I'm about to try it with 7.0 and dhcpcd. When I set up the world ip, is it as simple as (in yast) setting up Network Base Configuration | <F3> auto ip | DHCP? Do I have to specifically run "dhcpcd -h c-xxxxxx?" TIA -- The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste? -- Dave Barry, "On Presidential Politics"
On Monday 16 April 2001 10:12 pm, you wrote:
I have never been able to get my firewall working with DHCP. I've tried a couple of times, each time spending a Saturday on it, but both times I couldn't get the network to assign an address.
That was with 6.4 and dhclient. I'm about to try it with 7.0 and dhcpcd. When I set up the world ip, is it as simple as (in yast) setting up Network Base Configuration | <F3> auto ip | DHCP? Do I have to specifically run "dhcpcd -h c-xxxxxx?" Yeah you need to run dhcpcd -h hostnameathomegivesyou@home.com eth0 and that should make it work! I'm having the same problem on a friend's computer. Luck Kevin Breit
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Kevin Breit wrote:
On Monday 16 April 2001 10:12 pm, you wrote:
I have never been able to get my firewall working with DHCP. I've tried a couple of times, each time spending a Saturday on it, but both times I couldn't get the network to assign an address.
That was with 6.4 and dhclient. I'm about to try it with 7.0 and dhcpcd. When I set up the world ip, is it as simple as (in yast) setting up Network Base Configuration | <F3> auto ip | DHCP? Do I have to specifically run "dhcpcd -h c-xxxxxx?" Yeah you need to run dhcpcd -h hostnameathomegivesyou@home.com eth0 and that should make it work! I'm having the same problem on a friend's computer. Luck Kevin Breit
This may vary from market to market, but here in SE Michigan, Mediaone bases their DHCP on MAC address. All that is necessary is to call their provisioning center (888 #), and have them put the MAC address of the ethernet interface into their database. The @home service, OTOH, bases theirs on hostname, so that you can connect any computer, with any MAC address, so long as it answers to the correct hostname. I had never seen the @home style used before, but I had no trouble getting a Linksys firewall/router to talk to them. I have not been successful, however, in setting up a host entry in dhcpd.conf, so that I can assign my laptop a consistent IP address, no matter which PCMCIA ethernet card I happen to plug into it. Can anyone post an example host section from dhcpd.conf to help me out? -- Rick Green "I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius. ... and I keep them in a jar under my bed"
On 16 Apr 2001, at 22:20, Kevin Breit wrote:
Do I have to specifically run "dhcpcd -h c-xxxxxx?"
Yeah you need to run dhcpcd -h hostnameathomegivesyou@home.com eth0 and that should make it work! I'm having the same problem on a friend's computer. Luck Kevin Breit
Is it possible to include the -h option in the /etc/init.d/dhclient script to automatically run this during boot? Also it would be cool to add a variable to rc.config "$DHCP_SEND_HOSTNAME" (c-xxxxx@Home.COM) and perhaps "$DHCP_CABLE_INTERNET (yes/no)?" I'm not big on script programming, so if anyone has any code they can share I would be grateful. ~Dale ________________________________ Dale Schuster MIS Manager Lake Tahoe Horizon Casino Resort dschuster@horizoncasino.com
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