[Novalug] New and Different DHCP stuff

[Nicholas Brenckle]

So you can ping from a device hanging off eth1 to something on the internet
(which would be off eth0)?  I didn't quite follow what works and what
doesnt.

-Nick

On 4/16/07, David Shambaugh <dshambaugh at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm making progress.  What I'm trying to do is use the Cox Cable Modem
> to connect directly to a linux box with Slackware on eth0 and then to a
> router on eth1.  I've got the DHCP stuff working to the point where I can
> ping IP numbers from the machine connected to the router but not resolve
> domain names.  I've tried adding the Cox DNS ip numbers and other known
> DNS
> IP addresses in the network config file but to no avail.  I've even tried
> adding these numbers to the table in the router setup.  I'm using a
> Linksys
> 4 port switch Model number BEFSR41. So any help or suggestions on having
> the
> machines down line from the eth1 card would be appreciated.
>
> The second issue is; since the Cable modem is receiving it's IP number via
> DHCP when I connect I get a different IP address every time.  In order to
> get the router and its hosts to ping the outside world I had to make a
> subnet link to the IP address that eth0 is connected to.  How do I write
> or
> does anyone have a script (Detailed specific language would be helpful)
> that
> will get the eth0 address and automatically subnet that address (whatever
> it
> happens to be at that time.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
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