Q re dhcpd.conf setup

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 11:03, Lamar Milligan wrote:
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>> Heskett Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:05 AM
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>> Subject: Q re dhcpd.conf setup
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>You can add a line similar to this:
>
> option routers 1.2.3.4;
>
Thats in there.  And I got tired of fighting with the daemons insistance 
on knowing the full details of both nics, which furnishes a path to 
bypass iptables that I shut it down on that machine and now have ot 
trying to run on this box.  But the lappy isn't even asking for dhcp 
even though the ifcfg-wlan0 is setup to use it.  So I'm slowly going 
crazy here trying to make it work when nothing I do seems to effect it 
other than hardcoding everything in ifcfg-wlan0.  The it works, but how 
can I do discovery on a new net if it never asks for service?

>Good luck.
>
I seem to have run fresh out of that.

>> 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.
>>
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>> Cheers, Gene
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Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.