On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:28AM -0600, matt garman wrote: > > I configured one of my roommates' Windows box to automatically receive an > IP address. I restarted his computer, and watched the output of > "tail -f /var/log/messages" on my Linux box to see if dhcpd assigned an IP > address: dhcp made no entry in /var/log/messages (also no entry in > /var/log/syslog for that matter). I then used my serial modem to > establish a ppp connection to my school and tried "surfing the net" from > my roommate's computer -- which didn't work.
why are you trying to use dhcp for a small private lan? just enter static ip addresses into all the machines that are behind the linux firewall. use the 192.168.0.* range. dhcp is more trouble then its worth for just a couple machines... > I'm guessing there may be an error in my /etc/dhcp.conf file, but I mostly > copied the sample dhcp.conf from the home network mini howto. My other > guess is that I've missed some other minor detail. my advice is don't mess with dhcp for the firewalled machines. you may be forced to use it to get an ip from the cable modem but that is a different issue. > Does anyone have any hints on getting my LAN running? I'd really like a > step-by-step guide to setting such a thing up (aimed at the Debian > distribution). all machines in the lan should have private IP addresses in the 192.168.0.* range, the NIC in your linux box connected to this lan should also have such as address (say 192.168.0.1) the other NIC should be assigned the IP address for the cable modem (unfortunately they ususally insist on using dhcp for this) at that point look at the ipmasq package. or the ipmasq howto. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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