On Wednesday 30 May 2001 19:33, you wrote:
> It would appear that what is broken is the vnet's ability to have a dhcp
> server hosting from another subnet... This is the only thing I can find
> in common between work and my home router... My home router gets
> assigned an address via PPP, but I also have a routed subnet... and that
> subnet isn't is no where near my PPP assigned IP... So the router is
> configured to route to a virtual interface (shared on its eth0). So all
> the machines that do work via dhcp say the dhcp server is the PPP
> assigned address (208.49.7.250) and not the router's virtual interface
> (207.227.237.209).
>
> VMWare doesn't have this problem, nor do real windows, linux and
> macintosh systems... Just vnet.
>
> dhcproxy doesn't help either. It just makes windows assign all ip's to
> 0.0.0.0... Grrrr.
>
> Guess I'm going to have to switch you hosting DHCP on my linux box...
> both here *and* at work. Anyone know a way to set it up so I won't be
> handing out IP's to everyone at work... only my win4lin session?
I use DHCP to assign IP address based on the MAC address on the NIC. This
pretty much limits who's gonna get an IP from me... It also allows me to
assign 'static' IP to a NIC, since that NIC always gets the same IP sent to
it when it makes a DHCP request.
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