At 04:54 PM 5/23/00 -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: >I'm in need of a little help. Tomorrow the cable company is coming to hook up >my cable modem (HURRAY). Anyway, I have been told that they (road runner) use >dhcp to assign the ip addresses. I know from some pages I have seen that linux >will work with road runners dhcp, but I have a different problem. I'm running >dhcp on my home network. > >Question: How do you get the dhcp client on my firewall computer to grab the >cable modem address and not an address from my internal dhcp?
You don't say which dhcp client you are using; there are at least two. The one I've used, dhcpcd, has a variable IFACE that you set equal to the interface name (eth0, eth1, or whatever) you want dhcpcd to request a lease for. I forget if this is in the init.d script or in a config file in /etc/dhcpc . Also a heads up: some cable-modem providers require you to use a particular hostname as part of the least request; I can't recall if RR is like this or not. ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------