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"