greets, gang. i'm making myself crazy (crazier?) here trying to put suse 7.3 on a thinkpad 240 (i got a couple of these refurbed for cheap, and i love 'em; setting up one for my wife and one for me).
in an effort -- it may be a fantasy -- to create what amounts to p'n'p networking, i decided to experiment with dhcp. my efforts have been, thusfar, a dismal failure. this is perhaps assisted in yast2's insistence on changing everything back once it's been changed by hand. what it comes down to is this: if i specify an IP address in /etc/hosts (in this case, 192.168.0.6), it all seems to work, and ifconfig reports an address of 192.168.0.4, which is the next available address, which is just fine. but if i don't provide that address, i don't get the IP assignment at all. now. i'm on a little home network that sits behind an internet appliance (a d-link thing), which claims to function as a dhcp server. i do not know how this figures into things, but i mention it because it might. the goal is for my wife to be able to use the machine on the network here at home, also the network at her office, also through the dataport things in hotel rooms when we're on the road. finally, am i right that dhcp effectively eliminates the ability to hotplug the pcmcia card and get instant network access, as with a fixed IP, and instead requires the card to be in place at boot? as you have now seen demonstrated, what i know about networking could be put on a postcard, with room for a pretty big picture. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
