Oops - forgot to address the DHCP question. I should imagine that your eth1 interface would be set to get its address via DHCP unless you are paying for a permanent address. So this being the case, yes it will mess with your host name.
Brian On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 00:13, Hanan Shargi wrote: > Sorry, the bastille firewall IS ON, > I tried service bastille-firewall stop and some rules scrolled on the screen > => it was working ():-) > > but after i stopped it, I noticed the following: > 1- I lost the connection sharing , the win machine cannot see the internet > anymore. > 2- I CAN ping 192.168.0.1 <= linux machine from w2k !! > > > I also noticed something else ( I noticed this a few days ago ) every time I > change the following line in /etc/hosts file : > 192.168.0.1 hanan.myisp.com hanan > > to > > 192.168.0.1 hanan.homelan.com hanan ( chnage the host nam to > reflect the my local lan ) > it reverts back to the isp lan @@ ?? > > does this have to o with DHCP ?? does DHCP run automatically when one sets > connection sharing ? > If somebody kows about a place to read about this network setting and DHCP by > editing the actual files tha need to be edited, I'd like to ge rid of al this > GUI confusing settings. > for I still dont know WHY does control center BELIEVES that I have eth cards > !! when I only have 2 !! > > > > --------------------- > Hanan AL-Shargi > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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