I think you need to read the howto for masquerading. If I remember
correctly there is a specific line you need to add to your startup files
(rc.firewall or rc.local) that allows dhcp to work. I used 7.1 on a
laptop for a while as a firewall and it worked fine there.
Tom Berkley
"Bob Puff@NLE" wr
Hello,
I just built a new MDK 7.1 machine to use as a Masq box.
Tried it on my DSL modem, and for some reason, DHCP doesn't
seem to work. Everything works fine if I manually set the
IP address, but I should be able to use DHCP.. I am using
DHCP on a MDK 6.1 system with the same DSL modem, so I
