IPForwarding / IPTABLES question

Cowles, Steve steve at stevecowles.com
Wed Mar 24 01:05:35 UTC 2004


jg wrote:
> Ok, I am new to setting this up on Redhat.
> I want the hosts behind eth0 to grab there IP
> addresses via DHCP, teh DHCP server is located on the network connect
> to eth1. 
> 
> As well I need eth0 to grab it's IP via DHCP (will be a permanent
> lease). 
> 
> 
> Looks like this:
> 
> 
> [Systems] --> eth0 *| --- |* eth1 --> (network)
> 
> 
> How can I make this work?

DHCP is based on broadcasts packets. Broadcasts are not routed. Because of
this, you will need to run a dhcp relay agent like dhcrelay.

Type: man dhcrelay

Steve Cowles





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