Alex McLintock wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 12:30, Alex McLintock wrote:
[ snip ] > --- guitarlynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My Internet provider is NTL:Home which is a UK based cable company. I > > > know that that is working to some extent because I can get it working > > > with a single windows98 box. I can configure it with DHCP and bobs > > > your uncle. > > > > Good, you can open a "run..." dialog box and enter "winipcfg", select > > your Nic in the adapter box, and push the "more info" button to get > > info on your Gateway and dns server ip addresses. > > Aha! Thanks for that. Please put it in the FAQ :-) > It told me that my IP address for the laptop was 80.1.127.3, > Gateway 80.1.127.1, > DNS 194.168.4.100 > DHCP server 10.0.122.70 > > Now when I boot up my DachStein box (just after the cable modem set top box!!!) > it gets the same DHCP server. I get a line something like > DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.0.122.70 port 67 > DHCPACK from 10.0.122.70 > eth0 bound to 10.50.14.4 > > Jan 13 08:24:54 firewall dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.0.122.70 port 67 > Jan 13 08:24:54 firewall dhclient: DHCPACK from 10.0.122.70 > Jan 13 08:24:55 firewall dhclient: bound to 10.50.14.4 -- renewal in 1800 seconds. > > which is weird since it gave my windows box a 80.* address..... [ snip ] This is a common result of your ISP's dhcp server *not* recognizing you nor having any clue regarding what to do with you. My guess is, that your ISP recognizes your win98 box by it's nic's mac address and assigns it a functional lease. However, it only recognizes that one (1) mac address and when you surprise it with the mac address on your firewall nic, it doesn't know who you are and decides to issue a lease on a non-functional address. You have many choices, one of which is to take the nic out of the win98 box and configure it to work in your firewall and everybody ought to live happily ever after . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
