DHCP-configuration LAN

cbbahn · 10-05-2005, 09:15 AM

Dear Geeks,

I justed installed DEBIAN successfully on my laptop, but unfortunately missed the DHCPconfiguration. When I tried to access my LAN in university, I was asked to configure the network first, providing details which I dont now.

Do you have any ideas how I can configure DHCP that it behave like in UBUNTU (plug it in, surfing starts)?

Kind regards,
Christopher

MensaWater · 10-05-2005, 09:39 AM

On my Debian which is using dhcp client (dhclient):

1) In /etc/network/interfaces I see:
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

Presumably it is the dhcp at the end of the line that tells it to use dhcp for this interface.

There is also a /etc/dhclient.conf that can be configured for how dhcp operates but for the most part you don't need to do anything in that file. Just mention it in case you find things you want to tweak later.

cbbahn · 10-10-2005, 06:45 AM

Kind regards,
Christopher

fhleung · 10-27-2005, 06:05 PM

I have a gateway router and it assign IPs in DHCP way.

There are both Windows and Linux machines in the LAN, the setting in the gateway use DHCP and assign IP within the range. The windows machines IP are within the range

But I have no idea the Linux box IP (e.g. 192.168.1.222) is out of range? Any one have the idea?