networking problems

[Janina Sajka]

You're correct, Jim, static is better. Only if you have many
machines coming and going is dhcp an improvement.

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:

> Yes, Janina that is why I suggested  she use ifconfig and route for her 
> static stuff.  I'm not sure why anybody would want to use dhcp on the 
> inside of a network (unless the machines inside are WINDOWS).On Sun, 30 
> Jun 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > I may be wrong about this, but I think those Red Hat utilities
> > only work for one card and simple setups. When you move to two
> > nics and ip forwarding/masquerading, you leave simple behind and
> > the scripts won't help you anymore. After all, Linux is very
> > powerful on networking, and the scripts aren't designed to cover
> > all circumstances, only the basics for newbies and technophobes.
> > 
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