Re: dhcp

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jens.jorgensen@cmgisolutions.com>]

dhcp-client is indeed the package you want. Post the error messages you get during
install.

In order to run a gateway for your external interface you'll want to set up IP
Masquerading and then have all your other boxes point to your linux box as their
default gateway. In order to get IP Masq. going you'll need to get your kernel loading
the masq. modules and then configure the masquerading using ipfwadm or ipchains
depending on your kernel. Please look at the IP Masquerading HOWTO for details:
http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html

John Plummer wrote:

> Hi,
>     Sorry to bother you with another newbie question but
> hours searching man, info, HOWTO's and FAQ's wasn't
> too revealing.
>     I have a PC with both a Netgear and a 3Com Etherlink
> II nic cards.  The Netgear is attached to a cablemodem
> and uses DHCP.  The 3Com is fixed IP for the internal
> LAN.  Both work under NT but I'm trying to switch to Debian.
>     Loaded ver. 2.1 from the CD with dselect settings
> stable main contrib.  Added the 3Com during installation
> and later using modconf added a tulip module for the Netgear.
> This was implied from an email thread about the Netgear NIC.
>     The problem is first how to get DHCP up and running so
> as not to have to switch back to the dark side to browse and
> do email.  Running dpkg --list 'dhcp*' listed a few dhcp entries,
> e.g. dhcp, dhcp-client, dhcp-beta, dhcpd, etc.  But both apt-get
> install dhcp-client and using dselect (probably incorrectly) erred
> out.  Can anyone point me to some docs on doing this?
>     The second needed HOWTO would be setting up the
> gateway for the LAN through the 3Com.  At this point, even
> being pointed to the appropriate info, man or HOWTO would
> be appreciated.
>     First brush with OS has been impressive.  Brings back the
> feeling of potential felt when discovering Sun's OS with
> Openwindows years ago.  Except this time the pieces are
> there and affordable.
> jcp
>
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Jens B. Jorgensen
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