Can anyone tell me how to load and configure the dhcpcd daemon? I currently have my eth0 interface configured to use a static IP address. My home configuration consists of the following:

Dell Latitude C600 (laptop) running Red Hat 7.2
Self-built desktop (AMD Athlon 1G, 384M RAM) running Win98 SE
Self-built desktop (Intel P133, 96M RAM) running Red Hat 7.2

I am using the Windows box to dial in to my ISP and I've configured it to share its connection with the other devices on my home LAN. In addition, this Win98 box is the DHCP server on my network. I know this is not the ideal configuration, but I haven't found a similar solution on Linux yet (at least I haven't found a way of sharing a dial-up connection in Linux).

Note: The Win98 box is serving addresses from the 192.168.0.x block of private class C addresses.

Note 2: Although I am using KDE for my desktop, I would prefer to use only console utilities and rc files to setup the dhcpcd daemon and the rest of my network.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric

you don't need a deamon to configure as a dchp client, just setup your eth0 to use dchp (use setup or netconf from the console, or any other network config tool) and reload your network (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network reload). use ifconfig to check.

also, there are many ways to share dial up connection in linux... search for info on dialup routing and stuff like that and check out the HOWTO's on www.linuxdoc.org .

Thanks for the info. I'm going to look into using my Linux desktop as my dial-up connection with routing and NAT. That's definitely my preferred solution. However, before I make that change, I still need to get this Linux laptop using dhcp. In your message, you refer to several network configuration tools; however, I was hoping you might know the actual configuration files that I could edit directly using a text editor.

"I would prefer to use only console utilities and rc files to setup" ....

setup and netconf run from the console. some of the file you can edit for networking:

DCHP client:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

example ifcfg-eth0 :
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dchp
ONBOOT=yes

dialup and other stuff:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes

if you do use linux in the future for your NAT routing, one way to do it is with one iptables scripts that runs at bootup, assuming that both network interfaces are up and configured.

Thanks for all of your help. I appreciate it.
Have a good one,
Eric