On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Darren R. Weber wrote: dw> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, you wrote: dw> > hi everyone; dw> > dw> > I have dynamic(DHCP) Uswest DSL which issues private(10.0.0.2) IP. Is it dw> > possible to masquarde with this local IP address? dw> > Anyone who tried it? I have small home network with 675 external router dw> > connected to only one machine. dw> > dw> > thanks dw> > dw> dw> Yep, I do it here. I have a small internal network masq'd through my SuSE box. dw> It's connected to an Alcatel 1000 ADSL modem provided by my ISP. I get a dw> regular IP address here instead of local numbering like the 10.*.*.* that you dw> mention. You should still be ok though just number your internal net in the dw> 192.168.*.* range also reserved for private nets. I do use dhcpcd instead of dw> the other client and every now and then (like once every two months) it doesn't dw> refresh the address like it should, but in those cases I just force it to and dw> I'm back in business. For the most part it is trouble free. dw> I have a similar issue as you describe, what I've been thinking of doing is writing a script that pings a dns server and if it fails, refresh it for me. Have it run with in a crontab to automate the entire thing and it's set. I just havn't had time to mess with it yet so I've been doing it the force method myself. Anyway, on the same subject, what is the best way to refresh the address would you say? I've been doing it the rcfirewall and rcdhclient restart method. dw> -- dw> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dw> Darren R. Weber dw> drw@linuxfan.com dw> ICQ# 2849193 dw> http://drw.penguinpowered.com/ dw> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dw> dw> dw> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.4+ - Kernel 2.2.16 What you don't know can hurt you, only you won't know it. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq