If your other hosts have received new ip addresses from what is in your dns or routing tables how will ping find them? The only way I know is to enable dynamic dns. For my research that is too much trouble for a small home lan.
Gerry On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Edward Dekkers wrote: > With the mini-howto, I HAVE gotten dhcpd up and running and it it serving > dynamic ip addresses OK. > > Previously, the clients were static, and I also used to fill in the > 'gateway' ip, to allow the client to get on the internet. Now, when running > ipconfig on the clients, the gateway is empty. They have obviously picked up > on the DNS server correctly, because the internet addresses ARE being > translated correctly, however, pinging is a no go. > > I've also gone through 'man dhcpd.conf' and 'man 5 dhcpd-options' files, to > see if the dhcp server can insert this gateway value into the clients, but > I'm obviously misunderstanding how it is done because no option remotely > looks like what I need. > > What do I need to set up in my dhcpd.conf, for the clients to pick up the > default gateway? > > TIA. > > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
