fredagen den 21 februari 2003 15.12 skrev Buchan Milne:
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> guran wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Updated to new kernel &c
> >
> > It is perhopes possible that this problem is coming from dhcp, i.e. the
> > firewall is a Mdk 9.0 that is not giving the right name back to the
>
> box when
>
> > it is opening up eth0.
>
> Either your dhcp server should be setting ip/hostname via MAC address:
> host mybox { hardware ethernet XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX; fixed-address
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;}
>
> or, your machine should be providing a hostname in the dhcp request
> (especially with DDNS)
>
> drakconnect did not seem to do the right thing, so I added:
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=mybox
> to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. It might work if you set
> it in /etc/sysconfig/network, but really, drakconnect should set it
> (which it did not for me, even though I filled it in during install and
> afterwards).
>
> Buchan
Thanks, I will check up my firewall and the MAC address possibility.
regards
guran
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