Q re dhcpd.conf setup
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Apr 26 14:05:15 UTC 2006
Greetings;
As I get to do a bit of computer repairs from time to time, I've setup a
little 5 address wide dhcpd server on my firewall box. But I had a
problem last night getting a fresh winderz XP (spit) install to
connect, specifically I had to enter a gateway address in the tcp/ip
properties and reboot before it would connect. It was given an dhcp
address according to the logs on the firewall box, but apparently not a
gateway address.
Should the dhcpd protocol have handled that? It is not setup in the
dhcpd.conf I'm using, and I can find no references to defining a
"gateway address" in any of the dhcp related manpages, which does seem
a bit odd to me.
It never crossed my mind when setting it for my new lappy running FC5
because I'd already set that up on a fixed address basis before
converting it to BOOTPROTO=dhcp in the ifcfg-wlan0 file.
The dhcpd daemon itself is running on my firewall, a rh7.3 box.
A second question: How can one add a level of security by password
protecting this dhcp login, makeing the client supply a correct
password before the lease is negotiated? That doesn't seem to be
mentioned in the manpages either.
--
Cheers, Gene
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