[olug] DHCP questions

Don E. Kauffman dkauffman at tconl.com
Wed Aug 21 18:47:59 UTC 2002


Carl,

It's  setup in my firewall shell script that runs at least when I boot up.
See below
[root at kauffman2443 ipv4]# more ip_forward
1

Thanks!

Don

On Wednesday 21 August 2002 01:14 pm, you wrote:
> Have you enabled ip forwarding? Try:
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> and see if that starts it up (I always seem to forget this step),
> if not I'll try and think of something else that could be going wrong...
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
>
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:47, Don E. Kauffman wrote:
> > I recently got DHCP on my Qwest Choice Online.  i have the linux box (RH
> > 7.2) up and running after some confusion. I need some advice or good how
> > ti's on setting up my Win 98 box to work similarly to what it was
> >
> > Previously I had the two boxes  networked w/ private/ public static P's
> > Linux having the public and Wind 98 the private. Since I've had DHCP this
> > doesn't work.  So how do I do this now? I'd be interested in several
> > pieces of info.
> >
> > 1. Setting M$ 98 box up with a private static IP address networked with
> > Linux Dynamic IP.
> >
> > 2. I'm using IPtables  / Netfilter so I need to know what I use for SNAT
> > postrouting. Here's the line i used for the static IP below.
> >
> > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to 10.190.6.223
> >
> > I found some advice that seemed to suggest I replace this with the line
> > below.
> >
> > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> >
> > and leave off the --to <static IP> That didn't seem to work either,
> >
> > 3.  How would I go about setting up DHCP on my internal network? There's
> > probably a couple of good how tors on this  so if anyone knows of any
> > they can recommend it.
> >
> > A. Would there be any advantages / disadvantages  to setting up this way?
> >
> > B. Do i need different equipment or will this work with a crossover
> > cable?
> >
> >
> > Thanks In advance!
> >
> > Don Kauffman
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