On Apr 6, 2005 6:42 PM, David Hoffman <dhoffman2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Apr 6, 2005 11:34 AM, Henry Hartley <henryhartley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > As of this week, I'm on a cheaper circuit without any spare IP > > addresses. The former users all were getting broadband so it wasn't > > suppose to matter but my parents order for broadband is taking longer > > than expected. I'd like to give them their ppp back until Verizon gets > > things set up but don't know how to set it up so that dhcp can assign a > > private IP address to the modem. Can anyone here point me to > > documentation that will help me with this? > > > > I've configured a simple DHCP server before but it didn't involve ppp > > and I don't really know where to start. Any help you can provide would > > be greatly appreciated. > > > > It sounds like what you need to do is create your new IP Addresses on > a private (192.168.x.x) network, and then set your system to use NAT > to allow the traffic to pass. That way you don't have to depend on > other existing IP Addresses, and your machine can route the traffic > through using NAT. I know there is information at TLDP.org with > how-to's on setting up Masquerading (NAT) and PPP, but I don't recall > actual links right now. > > Perhaps someone else will have better suggestions or links. > > -- > > David > Registered Linux User 383030 (since everyone else was doing it 8-) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Or try the Linux Home Server howto on http://www.brennan.id.au/ It's been written with fedora and it explains everything what David was talking about (NAT and routing internal traffic to a PPP device with DHCP). Bart
