On Friday 23 January 2004 09:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Then, you can let the router serve as DHCP and assign IP > > Why do you need a router for that? Are we talking of a lan using > connection sharing? If so, is not your main linux box available to > be a dhcp server?
Just to follow-up, the main problem appears to be coordinating a stable connection between the windows and Linux boxen while also maintaining the dial-up Internet connection. He, in fact does plan to share the Internet connection by using the Linux box as the gateway. I suggested the router because he has been working at this for a bit, seems to be bouncing back and forth between Internet working and then LAN not working and LAN working and Internet not working and said that he was pressed for time. Easiest route being to let a router do the work and DHCP assign IP addresses to both boxes. I don't quite understand all the problems with the wizard stuff, but then I have never used it, I always set my connections up manually and don't have the added overhead of a modem connection. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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