RICHARD wrote: > Sorry but I have to use pine via telnet to respond to the replies. > > I expected to be re-directed to a startup web page when I tried to use the > browser but that did not happen - nothing happened the first time. I > couldn't get to any web pages or use telnet or ssh. Yet route -r showed > there was some sort of connection and the indicator for the ethernet > connection showed there was some sort of connection (it was flashing and > packets were being sent and received). I guessed at the gateway and dns > and was able to ping them but that was as far as I could go until I used a > route command to specify a default route to the gateway. I can tell from > resolv.conf that dhcp is specifying the dns (yet I wasn't originally able > to surf web pages unles I specified the ip address). > > An IT came up last night with his laptop (running Windows of course) and > was immediately able to connect. It stays connected but for some reason > the DNS gets lost and I have to repeatedly re-activate through the gui > network interface. > > How can I look at dhcp? When I used to type in all the commands manually > to connect (either wired or wirelessly using ifconfig, iwconfig, dhclient) > dhclient would give me info on the leases. But for some time it doesn't > give me any indication of what is going on. > > I'm going to try the service and dig example (but I wanted to send this > first in case it causes any problems with connecting). > > Thanks. > > Rick B. > > Rick Bilonick > mailto:rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.nauticom.net/users/rab > I wonder if they are using UPnP (Universal Plug-and-Play) to set things up? I don't think it is supported by default by Fedora. It is turned on by default under Windows XP. I am not sure about under Windows 98. In any case, it sounds like they are making use of some of the non-standard features of dhcp used by Windows. You should take a look at your logs to see if there is any information about this... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
