On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:22 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
> >FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl.  The
> >changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen
> > no problems that relate to the router issue.  When I upgraded to 9.0 no
> > problems emerged either.
> >
> >Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a
> > non-issue.
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Anne
>
> Thx Anne.  However my experience has been... Odd.
>
> I went to install linux, everything went fine & I chose "DHCP connection"
> as I had always in the past.  The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server
> after all, giving out addy's for our comps here.  Fine... Install went OK,
> it couldn't update packages but I expected that.  Rebooted into linux, it
> was fine.  No internet.  That was my first clue something was amiss.
>
> Fiddling with things with both the expert & novice controls I found out
> that I had to disable "DHCP/Bootp" & enable a static IP addy. WTH?  Makes
> no sense, and I had to put in gateway & DNS numbers (the routers IP
> sufficed here).  Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!?  OK
> something is amiss... but what?
>
> -------------
> FemmeFatale
>
> Good Decisions You boss Made:
> "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
> character from Peanuts."
>
> - Source: Dilbert

Sorry, I have lost track of this thread, but do you have both the DHCP server 
and client installed on your machine? Not sure but think you need both. (Oh, 
I get so confused, he,he.) Mostly it is somehymers. HTH
-- 
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