Well, this isn't a solution to your DHCP problem but ... Regarding email Why does it matter if your linux server is off the air for a while? I have a permanent connection that has been anything but that lately (Australia - Telstra: the worst source of ADSL in the world and currently the only one is .au - everything else is resellers as far as I understand ... blah blah blah) and most mail servers will keep trying to deliver to you for quite a while. Sendmail default is 5 days with retry every hour. I am a member of 3 sizeable mailing lists and with my longest outage of 16.5 hours a few weeks ago, I still get a whole bunch of email arriving within an hour or two of the connection coming back to life. So as long as you don't run another mail service on whatever is connected when you run without the linux box, it shouldn't matter? Not a solution, but maybe a help? -Cheers -Andrew Smith -- MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! > Is anyone by chance using AT&T@Home cable service especially in the > Chicago area? I currently run mine statically via linux -->cable modem > and it runs fine except my cable modem itself keeps getting > disconnected every so often. I have called support but they always have > me make sure I am running DHCP and that it works before they'll check > out my modem. If I tell them it loses connectivity and I run static > they say cause it's bumping into another client trying to use same > address but I never tell them I am running linux. > > I have setup DHCP with windows but I can't time it right to see if it > loses connection or not. Plus I run email, etc. on my linux server so > I can't leave it there long or I won't get my emails, etc.. > > I have tried setting up DHCP with linux but no matter what I try it > never will get it's IP address. If I run this command manually it sort > of seems to work.. > > /sbin/dhcpcd -dh CIXXXXXX-A (this would be my @home computer name) > > Above gives me my ip addresss and even sets /etc/resolv.conf up it > seems as well. But as mentioned above if I setup dhcp whether thru > netconf, linuxconf, or manually it seems to not get connected. I even > upgraded to latest dhcp in rawhide and same results. > > So exactly what do I need to do to get this working? Do I hvae to use > the computer+hostname of @home or can I use my FQDN? What if I have a > 2nd NIC? Does that interfer with the one connected to @home as far as > host name and what not? > > Mike Chambers > Netlyncs _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
