[CLUE-Tech] Easiest DHCP

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Steve wrote:

> I have Mandrake 7.2 but I'm thinking of upgrading to 8.1 or actually changing it
> all together to Red Hat 7.1 like Chris...Red Hat is one distro I've yet to
> try....imagine that.  As far as setup...I've had on static IP address through a
> LAN before but I think I need to have it on a cable setting which is what I have
> it on now with the DHCP setup.  I know for sure that the ethernet card works
> because it's the same one I was using with the static IP address setup months ago
> and it was still through AT&T's @home service.  It worked with SuSE but when I
> tried installing SuSE to get the internet going it still didn't work.

I'd recommend doing the upgrade if you're considering it anyway. It will likely
solve your problem, and I believe the setup has changed a bit from 7.2 to
8.1.

What type of Ethernet card do you have?

Take care,

Zonker
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