Thanks to all the helpful people on the list. I have a working Dachstein firewall.
I'll try to write up the full experience so that other users of this cable company can benefit. (NTLWorld in the UK.) Essentially the cable company was keeping track of the network card MAC address and this was why a) my firewall appeared to be given a 10. address - it was meant to be temporary and b) why I was getting persistant poackets from something afterwards it was a special server trying to set up the IP address properly. Also the DHCP server in the set top box only works for a few minutes after being powered up which was fun. This meant I had to synchronise power cycling the set top box with half way through the Dachstein boot up sequence :-) Anyway since the first network card I used was a PCMCIA in a laptop I couldn't use it in my firewall. I eventually took out the external NIC, put it in a windows box, and tried that. The cable company hardware recognised that I had changed my MAC address and sent my browser to a page which had a simple registration form. I then registered that PC (ie MAC address) with the cable company. It then set up my machine with a new config which wasn't in the 10. range. (Although winipcfg works on Win98 I had to use ipconfig and nslookup on my NT box) I now have a fixed IP address for that MAC address, a gateway address, and a DNS server. Hooray. I transfer the NIC back into the Dachstein firewall, configure it to NOT use DHCP, but use static external IP instead, and bobs your uncle. I can ping the dns server and www.yahoo.com and it all works lovely. I just push my local boxes into the 192.168.1.200-253 range and they all work fine. Thanks Again I might have been able to manage this on the Dachstein box if there was a lrp lynx web browser. Does such a beast exist? Alex ===== Alex McLintock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Consultancy in London OpenWeb Analysts Ltd, http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ --- SF and Computing Book News and Reviews: http://news.diversebooks.com/ Get Your XML T-Shirt <t-shirt/> at http://www.inversity.co.uk/ COMPETITION : http://news.diversebooks.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/08/1947255 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
