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Re: ADSL and Linux router?

reesedog
Wed, 07 Oct 1998 20:49:19 -0700

i have been running 2 machines under linux and through a hub.
just set it to dhcp and adsl does the rest

Slava Voronin wrote:

> Curt Sampson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Slava Voronin wrote:
> >
> > > I just got a confirmation that your IP address is not changing, though you
> > > should double check.
> >
> > Well, don't count on that. I'm getting switched between a lot of
> > addresses, and I'm starting to find out why. This morning I started
> > logging bootp stuff with tcpdump and did some reboots on my dual-boot
> > machine (NetBSD/Windows 98) and discovered that there are two DHCP
> > servers out there (209.63.0.1 and 209.53.0.17--interestingly enough,
> > both have the same MAC address from where I'm sitting) that return
> > different answers to me. Worse yet, there are two A records for me
> > in the DNS, one correct, and one an old IP address that I've not
> > been given in some time.
> >
> > I am actially using rogers wave and IP addr Igot the same fot three mounth
>
> even if I reboot. So, looks like under wave we have less trouble. I wonder if
> anybody have experience to configure linux as DHCP client (I 've seen those
> pacheges)
> under debian.