We are going to be getting Comcast cable in our area, finally. Been
dial-up for the last 3 yrs and still no dsl. Right now the Gentoo sever
acts as the (Shorewall) firewall and routing gateway for the other
internal pc's natting their connection to share the dial-up line. Hooky
I know, but it works. :P

My Gentoo linux firewall/server will be directly connected to the cable
modem on eth0 using dhcp to get an address from Comcast. Eth1 connects
the rest of the internal lan (3 pc's) which point to eth1 for their
default gateway and inturn the Gentoo server will route/NAT their
outbound connections.

Given the above I also run djbdns dns-caching server which all clients
point their dns settings to (eth1: 192.168.1.1 specifically). Dnscache
does the lookups on behalf of the clients and caches and returns their
dns requests. As well, the Gentoo server uses 192.168.1.1 in
/etc/resolv.conf using dnscache to fullfill any dns requests
originating from the Gentoo server its self.

When eth0 gets its dhcp info from comcast it will undoubtedly make
entries in /etc/resolv.conf with the dns servers that comcast wants me
to use over-riding the manual/static (don't know if I'm saying that
correctly) entry that I currently use. Is there 'any" way for me to
tell the dhcp client to not use, or say, discard the dns server
ip's/info that is given to me or to somehow tell /etc/resolv.conf to
only use "nameserver 192.168.1.1" ??

Thanks,
JBanks

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