* Bring up the network dialog under :
Application Menu => System Settings => Network
* Select the devices tab
you should see an active device like eth0 or eth1
* double click on the active device to open for editing
* select "Automatically obtain IP address settings with dhcp"
* select "Automatically obtain DNS information from provider"
* Click "OK".
* reboot for good measure
-Joseph
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On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
>
> I'm running a beige G3 mac with two network cards as a router/firewall/small
> webserver/etc.
>
> I'm switching isp and the new one uses dhcp instead of static information.
> The new connection also requires me to login at a webpage every time I
> restart the network.
>
> Anyway. The dhcp just won't work for me. When I connect my desktop mac with
> Mac OS X I just select dhcp and it works fine to access the login page. But
> on the ydl router I do get assigned an ip and dns from the dhcp server but
> when I try to type in the url to the login page in Mozilla (still on the ydl
> mac of course) I just get host not found or whatever. I can't ping anything.
> I tried accessing the login page by ip instead of host if something was wrong
> with the dns, but that doesn't work either.
>
> Any ideas of what I can do? I've tried service network restart, restarting
> the whole machine, deactive/active in the Network (gui) settings.
>
> It would also be great if you knew how I can see if I'm being assigned a
> gateway ip in linux. ifconfig only seems to show the ip and not the gateway.
> (so I know that gateway, ip and dns servers are all being assigned
> successfully)
>
> I'm about to cry. I really need this thing going asap.
>
> Regards Emil
> ps. Sorry for the long post. ds.
>
>
>
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