Alright, as no one ever wants to respond and help I will at least say I have come to find my win2000 clients are still loosing internet, but I have come to find that when I run an ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns that they connect again, so I am assuming it has to do the with the ddns-update-style.... what should I use here? I am already depending on my internet provider for dns should I not even use that line?

THanks

estranger, people don't respond is because we don't know the answer. Now, what exactly is your problem on your Linux win2k boxes. I'll tried to help. It sound like I got the same setup as you have.

Alright... I have 3 network cards:

eth0 is my internet
eth1 is my house side
eth2 is my class side

DHCP works for the most part but the issue I am starting to find is that on my house side internet/ip address siezes to work. I have to manually restart the client (win2k) machine or run ipconfig /renew to fix the issue.

Side note I am using iptables/ipmasquerading for internet sharing.

here is my dhcpd.conf file:

DHCPDARGS=eth1;
DHCPDARGS=eth2;

ddns-update-style interim;

default-lease-time 1209600; # 2 weeks
max-lease-time 1814400; # 3 weeks
option domain-name-servers 206.165.6.11, 206.165.6.12;

#class side

subnet 172.16.16.0 netmask 255.255.255.0{
range 172.16.16.10 172.16.16.200;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 172.16.16.255;
option routers 172.16.16.254;
option domain-name "l1";
}

#house side

subnet 10.69.12.0 netmask 255.255.252.0{
range 10.69.13.10 10.69.13.100;
option subnet-mask 255.255.252.0;
option broadcast-address 10.69.15.255;

option domain-name "l1";

}


Again, I am only noticing this issue on my house side, not on the classroom although the classroom machines are rebooted daily.

I haven't set a gateway on my house side as I set it manually on the win2k machines as we use 2 gateways and to my understanding Linux doesn't support doing 2 gateways on one nic???

The machines will work for a couple days/couple hours whatever and then they just stop and I have to manually renew IP's or reboot....

I have changed the ddn-update-style interim to none and am waiting to see if the issue persists.

Need any other info?

I found your other thread and answered it in there. Go check it out.

I will try that - thanks...

No problem. Let me know if you have any other questions.