Re: [SLE] Can XP ICS support SuSe DHCP?
From: Joe Morris (NTM) (Joe_Morris_at_ntm.org)
Date: 02/28/04
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:30:08 +0800 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
On 02/28/2004 09:04 AM, gchris@bellsouth.net wrote:
>Paul, I originally posted the question and I'm here to tell you that
>XP ICS has faultlessly delivered internet access to five other Windows
>boxes for over a year.
>
Haven't you ever rebooted that machine? Haven't you installed all the
latest critical updates that require a reboot. Just for that reason
alone, it has not faultlessly delivered internet access to your
network. If you mean when it worked, this would be the same with Linux
or a router. Which of the 3 would be more 'faultless'?
>With Windows, adding another box is as simple
>as giving it the gateway address 192.168.0.1 period.
>
IIRC, even this is not neccessary. By default it is configured for
DHCP, which auto assigns the gateway, when it works correctly.
>If Linux desktops are going to replace Windows desktops they need to be just as easy to
>configure, and my goal is to find out how to do that correctly.
>
>
A fair question. Since Windows ICS sets up a DHCP server, it should be
the same for all clients, setup the internally networked NICs to DHCP
(maybe not automatic in Linux but not hard either). I have had some
weird problems at times with dhcpcd and have by course always replaced
it with dhclient. I don't know if that is your problem, but I haven't
had a problem with dhclient for years. In that case, it would be the
same for the Linux client or the Windows client, with only 1 possible
problem, a Microsoft closed source DHCP server which could actually be
programmed to look only for a Windows client and reject all others. For
that reason alone I would at least use the Linux DHCP server, but I
would have put the higher security Linux box on the internet and made it
the router over XP.
>BTW, XP ICS can use two NICs or one NIC and a dialup modem or one NIC
>and a USB connection to a cable/DSL modem.
>
Correct.
>Now tell me why I need a $50 router to fix something that isn't broken? ;)
>
It isn't a need, just another possible fix for your problem. If you
manually setup your usually dynamically assigned network settings (IP,
netmask, DNS, gateway, etc.) in Linux it would work through Windows.
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