On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 02:00:17PM -0600, Shawn wrote: > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:37:47 -0600 > "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix at techmonkeys.org> wrote: > > > You don't need the DHCP server address, even if you had it, what > > would you do with it? > > > The IPCop configuration requests the DHCP server address. When I tell it to get information from the ISP with a DHCP configuration, it requests that information. I have not seen it gather that information. Are you sure that it's not talking about the internal DHCP information? I did an IPCOP install a month ago, and I recall it asking for DHCP information - but for the internal addresses. i.e. if you want your firewall to be your local DHCP server, what address do you want it to use? What addresses do you want it to give out? I prefer to set my firewall to 10.0.0.1 and have it give out starting at 10.0.0.10. If you let it get information from the ISP, what you are doing is trying to get multiple IPs from your ISP - which isn't allowed unless you bought a subnet. You have to use your firewall as a NAT device in order to allow multiple computers to use the one IP that your ISP allows. Something to try to make sure your ISP isn't horky is to just borrow one of those linksys/dlink router/switch deals and hooking it up to see if it'll work. If it does, then the ISP isn't the problem. You could also try some other linux firewall distros (smoothwall or something), just to see if you can get it running. dan _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list