On Saturday 02 March 2002 17:10, Ant Ken wrote: > 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?
Yes, it is possible and always done with the dhcp client on the DF disk. If you are getting addresses for any servers (dhcp, gateway, dns, etc..) your ISP is not using valid routable addresses for the said server(s). The 10.x.x.x/8 ip block is considered private and DENY'ed by the default firewall ruleset. Read this FAQ for the information on how to allow one or more of these private ip blocks to give you the necessary information: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2869&group_id=13751 > 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. No, you are correct that the default setting doesn't. To change the settings on the the filtering, edit the line in "/etc/network.conf" from the setting "firewall" to "none" (sans quotes). This setting leaves you with no filtering, only routing. I highly suggest not doing this unless you like getting hacked or cleaning the Nimba worm off of your Win32 boxes, but this is a choice you can make for yourself. I hope this get's you going! -- ~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! _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
