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Dave Anderson
11-04-2001, 05:27 PM
Let me try to be quick here.

I'm using floppyfw with DHCP and IP masq. I have my DSL modem attached to the floppyfw machine. It is successfully establishing a connection on boot. I can ping various web sites from that floppyfw machine through the cable modem. DHCP is successfully working as well - it's assigning an IP address to my Windows 98 machine.

So now that I have the floppyfw system working properly, I'm trying to browse the Internet through my Windows 98 client. I set the default gateway to 192.168.1.1 (the IP address of the floppyfw machine) in the TCP/IP properties for the network card. In those same TCP/IP properties under the DNS tab, I added verizon.net as the domain and the two name server IP addresses I use with verizon. I reboot, go to a dos box, type 'ping xyz.com' and I get the standard host not found message.

The floppyfw and the win98 machine can ping one another, so I don't believe it's a cabling issue. The win98 machine is being assigned an IP address by the floppyfw DHCP. I just can't get 98 to access the net.

Any thoughts? I'm new to all this so please let me know if there's any other information I should be providing. I have read over a lot of docs, and as far as I can tell, I'm doing everything right.

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X_console
11-04-2001, 07:43 PM
Did you download the dhcpd package from the website there and included it into the floppy? That needs to run in order to provide DHCP access to machines behind the firewall. Once that's done, make sure you list your DNS servers in the dhcpd.conf file in the floppy:

option domain-name-servers 123.101.251.1, 123.101.251.2;

Restart dhcpd and release/renew the IPs on Win98 using winipcfg and try again.

Dave Anderson
11-04-2001, 09:42 PM
That's been done.