On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:24:44 -0600, Rick Meyerhoff <rick at eworld3.net> 
wrote:

>
>
> johnny fulcrum wrote:
>> Log into the IPCOP web interface, Click services on the left, then 
>> click DHCP server on the top.  On my cop box the Primary DNS server is 
>> 192.168.1.1 (itself).  This is was gets tossed to my dhcp clients on my 
>> LAN  - IPCOP itself is a DHCP client of my ISP ...  badda bing - it all 
>> works!
>
> I don't understand what you mean when you say that IPCop is a DHCP 
> client of your ISP. Do you mean that the IPCop box gets it's IP 
> dynamically assigned?
>

Yes.  IPCOP gets a dynamic IP from Road Runner every 30 hours or so.


> I certainly don't have the "it all works!" part. ;-)
>
>>

:(  - I have a cable connection - don't know how the dial up deals with 
the networking stuff. sorry.
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:30:32 -0600, Rick Meyerhoff <rick at eworld3.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I installed IPCop several months ago and have not actually got it 
>>> fully working. I know I'm really close but I'm still trying to learn 
>>> this dang   networking stuff so I don't quite have that last bit of 
>>> knowledge.
>>>
>>> So, at the moment I have my modem connected to my main Linux box with 
>>> a shorewall firewall running on it. That works fine and I could 
>>> continue to use that but I want to learn.
>>>
>>> I can access IPCop via its web interface and I have set IPCop to dial 
>>> on demand for DNS but I have not been able to get my main Linux box to 
>>> demand DNS from IPCop. IPCop is configured to dial out and connect to 
>>> my ISP, that works fine but when I try to access the net from my main 
>>> Linux box, I don't get DNS.
>>>
>>> I've tried to put the IP of IPCop in /etc/resolv.conf as a nameserver 
>>> entry but that does not get recognized.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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