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Re: DHCP accross router??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Godfrey Nix)
Tue Oct 27 11:54:17 1998
From: "Godfrey Nix" <g.nix@emnet.co.uk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:39:26 +0000
Reply-to: g.nix@emnet.co.uk
In-reply-to: <3.0.5.32.19981027111451.007e6670@mailx.netheaven.com>
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Umm, I dont think you can. DHCP is used to set all the
network values including the default router and should
only be used by macines on the local network.
By definition, any device which is the other side of a
router is not local.
You could get a Windoze machine to use DHCP via the
netbios protocol and then use the settings to run IP, but
that is not what you want. Unless you want to run IPX on
your linux box, and use IPX to get the DHCP info .....
> I need my Linux machine to get its IP address through DHCP. The DHCP server
> is only reachable through a router. I am having trouble finding out how to
> configure machines to use DHCP and how to debug DHCP in general. I have
> found nothing on how to do this. Any pointers are
> appreciated.
>
Godfrey N Nix C.Eng MBCS B.ScTech(Hons)
Network Operations Manager
East Midlands Network Ltd (emnet)
phone 0115 956 8260
visit http://www.emnet.co.uk
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