On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:30:23PM -0500, spongyboy wrote:
| Hello. I am brand new to this. When replying to me, you may write me at
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| and share your ideas about my problem.
| I have a c309 ether net card. This is hooked up to a hub. The hub goes
| into a fire wall box. The fire wall box is what is attached to a dsl
| modem. But the linux box is not the computer with the dsl software on it.
| My friend has dsl. His machine is the one with the win poet software.
| What network protocal should I use to access the net? When using windows, I
| just start internet explorer. My computer just looks for a lan
| connection. How can a linux machine do the same thing?
What the box looks for is a DHCP server to tell it what IP and what
DNS servers to use.
In /etc/network/interfaces you want :
iface eth0 inet dhcp
HTH,
-D
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