[plug] DHCP question

[Ian Kent]

At 06:57 AM 06-01-99 +0800, Steve Baker wrote something like:
>
>Greetings,
>
>I am setting up a Linux server for a small business, and want to use DHCP. 
>It basically works, but I get 'network unreachable' messages logged by
>dhcpd when the system has no default gateway.
>
>If I add a default route on the eth0 interface, it works, but I don't want
>to do that because when I configure the internet link then ppp0 will
>become the interface for the default route, and I don't think my ISP will
>be interested in dhcp messages for my local net.  The only routes I had in
>there originally were 192.168.200.0 and loopback. 

You can specify an interface as a parameter to dhcpd. In my case dhcpd kept
causeing diald to dial my ISP and this fixed it. You will probabally have
filtering on the PPP link so the ISP will not see any packets anyway.

I don't know if this will solve the default route problem that you have
since mine is set to a psuedo slip device for diald.

snip ...

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Ian Kent