Need help with @Home DHCP setup w/ Suse distro
I'm running Suse Linux 7.1 and have @Home cable modem service (was just converted from Mediaone). I am trying to get DHCP to work on eth0 (connected to cable modem) but am having no luck.
I was able to use a Windoze box w/ DHCP client to get an IP address and have set up my linux box with that address as a static IP (for now). I'm able to run everything fine (ip masq and all) this way but am fearful that @Home will want to reset my IP address - so I really want to figure out how to get DHCP working. I have seen several posts suggesting that I edit a file with DHCP_HOSTNAME=cx999999 or something similar, however these refer to some config files that I can't find. I understand that Suse has a different set of config files, so I'm looking for any help with this distro that I can find. |
The following needs to be done to set a network card (here: eth0) to be a dhcp-client in SuSE:
edit your /etc/rc.config file: find a line that says IFCONFIG_0="<something>" edit the <something> to say dhcpclient save rc.config and run SuSEconfig Now your eth0 is set to be a dhcp-client. I don't know how you can assign a dhcp-name though. Have a look into the man-pages for ifconfig. the <something> is given as parameters to ifconfig ethx at startup. So you can probably also assign a dhcp-name that way. Don't forget to run SuSEconfig each time you change any settings in /etc/rc.config! HTH, Steave. |
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