Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

[FemmeFatale]

At 03:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote:

>
> 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
--
Dennis M.  linux user # 180842

Sweety:

I've never needed a DHCP CLient before... why the hell would I need one now?

The router itself acts as the DHCP server so it "serves" up address like: 192.168.1.100 or ... 1.101, etc...

What I don't understand is why in winsux, it operates correctly as that DHCP server, yet Linux demands a static address from me, gateway & DNS numbers...?


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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

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