On Thursday, 24.03.2005 at 11:37 -0400, Tom Weller at Ambassador Computers wrote: > The office DHCP is handled by a router, (internal IP address 192.168.2.1). > With XP running on the laptop it will seek out its IP address from the > router, it is only when running Debian that is goes to the ISP > (24.222.whatever) to find an IP address. In the office I can access the > Internet, but I am outside the office workgroup, and cannot see any of the > other office computers. I have used the Office workgroup name in the network > setup.... Hmmm, so does 24.222.whatever actually give you an IP address? If you're on a different network segment (same ISP, but different segment), I can't see how it would. Other things to check - in /var/log/syslog for entries for service 'dhclient'. Can you post a couple of snippets? > I used the word 'bound' because that is exactly the term used in the boot > screen message, Is it? Ah, OK :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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