hi, thanks for your reply
with regards to question 2, i know my network cards are configured correctly because the dhcp server on my cable box gives me an ip address but i cannot go any where. its probably because when you plug a computer in to the cable box for the first time it gives you an ip address of some thing like 10.10.10.10 ( thats not the ip address i get, i am just using it as an example ) and changes my dns servers to something like 10.10.10.87 and 10.10.10.84 . then if you try and browse to any where ( ie www.yahoo.com ) it takes you to the configuration page and you have to add in the mac address of the card to the ISP's configuration, when you have done this the web page asks you to re-request your ip address. any way my point is that when my cable box gives out the ip address ( and every thing changes, every time ) i want the dhcp client to reconfigure the DNS, gateway, IP address, network, and subnet is this possible at the moment? if so, how? and i dont think the ipchains thing is letting everything through by default, if i type the command ipchains -v -L it gives me screen full's of rules and 99.9% if them have the word deny in them. i dont know where i got that command from, i am just cluching at straws at the moment. again i thank you, or any one that reply's, in advance antken At 15:45 02/03/02 -0600, you wrote: >comments inline :) > > >On Saturday 02 March 2002 14:00, Ant Ken wrote: > > 1. My cable connection gives out IP address, DNS, and gateways via > > dhcp, is there a way to make the system automatically update its > > gateway and DNS settings? > > >Yep, using the dhcp client. This is default for Dachstein. >If you need to login, send a certain "client-name/identifier" such >as a MAC address or computername, further configuration will be >needed. You don't say this is needed, so I'm assuming it doesn't. > > > 2. if i set up my cable connection with static settings i cannot > > ping anything outside ( on the web ) how can i disable/re-configure > > ipchains to allow all traffic in all directions? ( i know this can be > > dangerous, but this is only temporary ) > >Sounds to me as if you network card(s) aren't configured. Check out >the FAQ: >http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1418&group_id=13751 > >other FAQ's explain the configuration of LEAF in detail. These docs >are quite complete. Charles S's site will have any modules you might >need if they are not on the disk itself. > > > > 3. and finally, how would i go about setting up ipchains to allow > > trafic from inside to outside on certain ports and ip addresses? > >This is setup for you automagically in Dachstein. You shouldn't need >to change anything for this to happen if your hardware is setup >properly. > > >The following FAQ explains any information to help you get some >useful information to us if the relevent FAQ's don't get you going. > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1891&group_id=13751 > > > i am using the latest version of the dachstein image > > >I hope this helps, >-- > >~Lynn Avants >aka Guitarlynn > >guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net >http://leaf.sourceforge.net > >If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! antken email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
