On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Tom Brinkman wrote:

> > I'm confused then. First you say it only works when you set it to
> > use a static IP, then you say your connection is dynamic IP. These
> > two are mutually exclusive ... but if you're getting a zeroconf IP,
> > that means DHCP isn't working. You could of course just have
> > unchecked "dhcp/bootp/zeroconf" in the network setup ...
> >
> 
>   During the install, I did the adsl setup at the 'summary' stage. 
> I selected dynamic ip. When the zeroconf screen came up I entered 
> nothing and just clicked the 'next' button.  I've run the installer 
> for each beta and rc, and that's the first time I ever saw that 
> zeroconf screen.

It was there before IIRC. BTW, the only  difference the zeroconf screen 
makes is what goes in /etc/tmdns.conf.

> It's also the first time I've had any problem.
> I know =static seems ass backwards, but even with 9.0 and every time I 
> needed to re-setup the connection since, I've always saved related 
> config files and that setting has always been static.  The connection 
> is definitely dynamic, and as I said, I selected dynamic during the 
> fresh install.

AFAIK, BOOTPROTO is the *only* thing that changes between a dynamic 
(bootp/dhcp, or if they fail, zcip) and static.

There's something weird there ...

Buchan

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