On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:51:37 -0500
"Shawn Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dan,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. The client is a laptop running Windows XP Home
> EditionI'. Server is a tower running Gentoo 2006.1, shorewall 3.0.8.
> 
> The client is setup as follows:
> IP address: 192.168.1.2
> Netmask:    255.255.255.0
> Gateway:    192.168.1.1
> DNS:          192.168.1.1
> 
> I've changed my /etc/conf.d/net to:
> 
> # Interface Handler
> modules=( "ifconfig" )
> 
> # eth0 (WAN) config
> config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
> 
> # eth1 (LAN) config
> config_eth1=( "192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> 192.168.1.255" )
for what it's worth, netmask and broadcast will also default to those
settings in ifconfig if you set the ip to 192.168.1.x 

>  I have all that I need compiled into my kernel
> (2.6.19-r1). 

I agree.  let's see what happens....
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