Forgive me Gary But I'm not sure what your asking are you trying to plug the NT Box, The Linux Box and the cable modem into the same hub? this will not work. you will need to put two network cards in the linux machine(One for local one for Cable, then set up IP Masquerading between the two interfaces. Are you simply wondering how to set up the DHCP? Who is your Cable Provider? Have you read the cable modem mini-howto? (it might not be located at metalab anymore Check /usr/doc) > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Patton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 8:06 PM > To: Linux Newbie > Subject: DHCP > > Hello All, > > I hope someone can point me in the right direction (faqs, man pages, > links, > etc). I currently have an NT box on a home cable modem. I would like to > add the linux system I just built to the lan, as well. I have the hub > installed, but the problem is my cable modem uses DHCP to connect. I > would > like to use IP masking, but my linux box does not seem to want to pick up > DHCP when I ran the setup. I am not sure how to set this up where both > can > access at the same time. Any ideas? > > thanks in advance, > > Gary.
