Chad Martin wrote: > James Jolin wrote: > > ah, now there is some good questions. The access point/router has the > > dhcp turned on and the access point/router ip is 198.162.1.1. I've > > noticed in Windows that dhcp is also turned on and has assigned the > > computer itself a ip address. Do I gather that there are 2 dchp > servers > > running? Is that the same with linux? If I have to assign a ip > address > > for the access/router in the linux box where does it go? > > I hope you mean 192.168.1.1. If that wasn't a typo then it may have > something to do with your problems. > > There are not two DHCP servers running. DHCP just runs on a single > server, in this case your router, and assigns IPs to clients on the > network. In Windows, DHCP is turned on, meaning that it is looking for > a DHCP server on boot, finding one, and getting an IP address from the > router. > > In theory, clients broadcast a request for a DHCP server, and the server > responds directly. There shouldn't be a need to specify the IP address > of the server due to this broadcasting mechanism. Everything else your > client (Linux machine) should need should come from the DHCP server > (router). > > Chad Martin > ok, I really thank you for getting that cleared up...that's been bugging me for some time. So, now the question is why the Linux box is not receiving any info from the router. The cable and nic work in windows. Does the linux box not broadcast? I did turn off broadcasting to associates on router, but that's the way it is supposed to be as I understand it. Jim
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