On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Josh Trutwin wrote: > What I'm wondering is how do I configure eth0 if I replace the Cable > Modem and the IP address is dynamic? The cable modem is pretty generic, > I'm not sure if it has any interface I can log into to configure (not > that I'd know what to do anyway). I'm using DynDNS (the best) for > dynamic DNS services and they have a client program (ddclient) which I > expect to run on the Debian box to tell DynDNS when my IP address > changes, not sure how that well that will work though if the IP changes > and suddenly eth0 has the wrong IP address? Easy. Install the 'dhcp3-client' package, and set up your interface like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Then, see /usr/share/doc/ddclient/README.ddclient, and look for the 'USING DDCLIENT WITH dhclient' section on how to set that up. Instead of copying the file to /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks, though, you can copy it to /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/ddclient. > I also thought about throwing my RT314 (which no one bought from my > Classified ad for shame) between the Cable Modem and the Firewall and > have it NAT everything to say 192.168.1.1 and set that as the address > for eth0. Nooo! Last thing you want to do! :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list