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 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. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
