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Re: Beastly Tell is coming tomorrow to install ADSL...

Ya`akov N Miles (ynmiles@ibm.net)
Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:05:54 -0700

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Mike Montour wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ya`akov N Miles wrote:
>
> > Beastly Tell is coming tomorrow to install ADSL. I have a LinkSys
> > Ether16lan combo modem in my "gateway" machine dedicated for them.
> > I have two 25-foot 10baseT cables with a male-to-male connector.
> > I don't have DHCP, I guess I will find out how volatile the IP is...
>
> You need DHCP (or maybe BOOTP) to get an IP address in the first
> place. You can boot Windows, use its DHCP to get an address,
> reboot into Linux, and enter that address statically. However, I
> recommend that you go to www.isc.org and get the official package.
> If you use IP addresses that don't belong to you, you'll probably
> end up causing denial-of-service attacks for other ADSL users.
<snip>
I went to http://www.isc.org and downloaded their Beta version of DHCP
I don't know how to make just the client compile - I don't need or
want the server. Can you tell me what to do to set up the dhcp*.tar.gz
for Linux?

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