True - my comment about stopping dnsmasq was meant as a temporary stopgap
solution so he could plug it in to the network without worrying about the
box responding to DHCP requests. IE: stop dnsmasq, plug in network cable,
assign IP, access web interface to make permanent changes - not as a
permanent solution.
Regarding your suggestion about using rc.conf or user.conf, wouldn't it be
better to edit the gui.network.conf file? This way it would be read by the
GUI when he logged into it and he could revert those changes if necessary
through it down the road. If he created a supplemental config file, he
would then need to manually edit/remove it later, and the web interface
wouldn't be in sync.
-James
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Darrick Hartman
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Tom,
>
> This is a feature that we implemented for that very reason. I installed
> AstLinux on a network that had a Windows DHCP server. A Windows network
> works much better if it's allow to do DHCP.
>
> In the rc.conf (/mnt/kd/rc.conf if you have a single file, or
> /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/user.conf if using the rc.conf.d directory) specify
> NODHCP="ethX" where ethX is the network adapter on the LAN side.
>
> James said this in his email, but he also said to stop dnsmasq. I would
> not leave that in a stopped state. Stop dnsmasq as he described, make this
> change, then issue the gen-rc-conf command at the CLI to re-create the
> /tmp/etc/rc.conf file (which is linked to from /etc/rc.conf and generated
> at startup). Finally restart dnsmasq for the changes to take effect. (or
> reboot).
>
> The default behavior of providing dhcp leases is fine as long as the lan
> is not shared by a Windows domain controller.
>
> Darrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Chadwin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:23 AM
> To: 'AstLinux Users Mailing List'
> Subject: [Astlinux-users] Disable DHCP from CLI
>
> Hello all
>
> This must be quite a common request. How do I disable DHCP before I connect
> Astlinux to a network? I obviously can't use the GUI, so how do I do it
> from
> the command line? I won't tell you the nickname one of my colleagues gave
> Astlinux after I mistakenly connected it to a live LAN once and it started
> issuing DHCP addresses in conflict with our domain controllers.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>
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