RE: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
=> ...Or it works like the helpdesk I work on: Someone grabs an IP address, => DHCP gives out that address, user gets an IP conflict. User calls us, we => call net eng, who bounces the static address and leases it to the DHCP user. => Static user calls us, we ask them why they're screwing up the ne

RE: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Quoting Michael Stone[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] => ...Or it works like the helpdesk I work on: Someone grabs an IP address, => DHCP gives out that address, user gets an IP conflict. User calls us, we => call net eng, who bounces the static address and leases it to the DHCP user. => Static user calls u

Re: Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: > No! Not using dhcp means guessing a free IP - or better getting a real staic > one. There are other reasons for using dhcp. I have a notebook and it's very handy for getting a relevant IP wherever I happen to be. At home I have a sta

Re: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:35:49PM -0800, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: > [snip] > => try putting a "send host-name" statement in your dhclient.conf (see man 5 > => dhclient.conf for details) > => > => > I'd like to not even use

Re: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Greg Frye
Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: > [snip] > (Being on the Win95/MSOffice support team can really give you a crappy > outlook on life...) > > Tom > (Another person in a shop that keeps saying, "We can't use Linux - there's > no company to hold responsible if there's problems".) > Like Microsoft would be

Re: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Hogland, Thomas E. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > =Someone takes an IP no problem > =DHCP server gives out that IP...and the unsuspecting user gets an IP > =adress conflict. > = > =They call the helpdesk...helpdesk calls net eng... that adress is > =taken out of the DHCP pool and put on the exc

RE: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: [snip] => try putting a "send host-name" statement in your dhclient.conf (see man 5 => dhclient.conf for details) => => > I'd like to not even use the dhcp server but I think that would mean I'd => > have to setup the Linux machin

Re: Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: > Hi! > > Jeremy Blonde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > However a few problems arise. They are using dhcp, which I can work > > with (I get the ip address and can hit all the servers, etc.), but this > > also leaves a record in the dhcp ip

Re: Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Jeremy Blonde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > However a few problems arise. They are using dhcp, which I can work > with (I get the ip address and can hit all the servers, etc.), but this > also leaves a record in the dhcp ip address listing in this format: > > ipaddress hostname mac addre

RE: Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
y, October 14, 1998 8:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Hiding a linux computer I have an interesting question for some of you. Where I work they are very pro-WinNT. That's fine for them (although they could get the

Re: Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:41:44PM -0700, Jeremy Blonde wrote: > However a few problems arise. They are using dhcp, which I can work > with (I get the ip address and can hit all the servers, etc.), but this > also leaves a record in the dhcp ip address listing in this format: > ipaddress hos

Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Jeremy Blonde
I have an interesting question for some of you. Where I work they are very pro-WinNT. That's fine for them (although they could get the same file & printer sharing for 1/8 of the cost from Linux). Because of that they are very paranoid about Linux machines running on their network. What I