Re: assign dhcp address on ethernet interface?

[mickey_larson_2000]

I applogize, I was thinking of a hyothetical situation. I am not sure if this ever could occur since I unseasoned in the Cisco area.   The main reason I wanted to find this out was that I was thinking in situations where someone's outside link to the Internet in their office was a Cable or DSL modem. In some of cases I know it is hard to obtain a static IP address assigned.   Now normally what you could do if from the cable modem or DSL modem, go to the back of your computer and set the computer to obtain an address from DHCP. Then I started looking at the PIX506 or 1720 which seems like a low-end small office box for these type of small business environments and thought a box like this seems to be geared for these kind sof situations should be able to use DHCP on a interface---almost like a the Linksys Cable Modem/DSL Router for home user/networks.   Wouldn't the remote sites need a cisco box at their site as their default gateway if they wanted to establish VPN sessions back to a central site?   Remote:                                                                                                    Centeral:   |cable|--------|e0 - ethernet dhcp {Cisco-box} e1 - static|-------|internal-net|        |T1|---|traditonal cisco router setup|----|internal-net|           ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Swink To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: RE: assign dhcp address on ethernet interface? Mickey,   I don't think there is a way to do this.  I am hard pressed to figure out why you would want to do this.  Any static routes (including default gateway settings on your hosts) you have created to the interface would be ruined every time the interface picked up a new IP address.  This would especially create havoc on the inside interface of a PIX.    Please drop me a line if you find out how to do it.  Also, an explanation of what you are trying to do with it would be appreciated if you have time.   Dave Swink -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: assign dhcp address on ethernet interface? I want an Ethernet interface on a router to get it's IP address for DHCP. Is this possible? How about on a PIX ethernet interface?