On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:05:16PM -0600, Mike Lovell wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > >I have a firewall, on which I just installed a text mode only ubuntu > >7.04. I have two problems related to DHCP. Both interfaces use DHCP. > >
> >*/ > To start with, I have to ask the question of why you are running dhcp on > your internal network interface? I can understand wanting to run the > DHCP server on a different box but it is usually best to have the > firewall use a static address internally. Laziness, of course. One less thing to configure for each box every time I do an upgrade. > dhcpcd has command line options to have it skip writing resolv.conf > file (the -R option) and from specifying a gateway (the -G > option). But I am guessing that you are using dhclient since it is > Ubuntu. Right. > In this case, > you will probably want to edit the dhclient.conf file. Drat, I was afraid you were going to say that. I was hoping someone else had already solved this problem. I doubt I'm the first to hit it. > With it, you can specify to override (or supersede) options returned > by the dhcp server. You will have to do a bit of playing with it > but it should be able to override specific options for certain > interfaces. I was afraid that was what I would have to do. Thanks -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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