Re: befuddled

[Stan Kaufman <sekfmn@pacbell.net>]

Michael Skipper wrote:
> 
> Thanks Stan (and all)
> this seems to be the consensus, and I'll certainly work on it. Is there
> anything tricky I should know about dhcp--I can get access to an ethernet
> connection, but not to a specific ip. This would be the fastest surely.
> I have a supported card (3com) but I could not get connected. Can anyone
> give a from scratch config for this?
> 
> Thanks again
> Mike

Sorry, I haven't worked with dhcp in Linux yet. There's a mini-HOWTO at
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/index.html. The collection at
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/ is indispensable, IMHO.

If you're connecting via an ISP using DSL, you don't need to set up
dhcp; pppoe does the work, and you set the configurations in
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider, and
/etc/init.d/network. Details are in /usr/doc/pppoe/README.Debian which
is installed when you install the pppoe.deb package.

Sounds like you're connecting via a university LAN, though, so the
DHCP-HOWTO should get you where you need to go.

Good luck!

Stan