Richard Blackburn wrote:
> Is it a big drama to setup Optus Cable for the Internet on RH7? I tried
> to gleen something from previous postings, but I don't see anything
> specific on the SLUG site. The Optus people went on and on about having
> to have Windows and I told them no. If someone could outline the
> procedure step by step once the Optus people install their box, I'd
It fairly strait forward. I'd suggest haveing a doze box for the tech to
setup and test the cable, then you can simply blow it away and put a
decent os on it afterwards *8-)
You can try and get redhats broken dhcp client to work or you can simply
replace it with the dhcp client from the Internet software consortium at
http://www.isc.org/ I use it and it works a treat and is very easy to
configure. Simply place your machine name coXXXXXX into the
dhclient.conf file like so send host-name "COXXXXXX-A";
then just whack dhclient into a file such as /etc/rc.d/rc.local and away
you go !
Oh and make sure to read up on ipchains to set up a decent firewall for
your machine to keep loser haxors out.
If you need a place to start let me know and I'll send you my ipchains
script which sets up a fairly secure system - I havent been hacked yet
*8-)
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Chris MacKenzie
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Mac OS: "Where do you want to be tomorrow ?"
Linux: "Are you coming or what ?"
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