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Re: configuring my network settings



On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:30:23PM -0500, spongyboy wrote:
| Hello.  I am brand new to this.  When replying to me, you may write me at
| spongyboy@yahoo.com
| and share your ideas about my problem.
| I have a c309 ether net card.  This is hooked up to a hub.  The hub goes
| into a fire wall box.  The fire wall box is what is attached to a dsl
| modem.  But the linux box is not the computer with the dsl software on it.
| My friend has dsl.  His machine is the one with the win poet software.
| What network protocal should I use to access the net?  When using windows, I
| just start internet explorer.  My computer just looks for a lan
| connection.  How can a linux machine do the same thing?

What the box looks for is a DHCP server to tell it what IP and what
DNS servers to use.

In /etc/network/interfaces you want :

iface eth0 inet dhcp


HTH,
-D

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