HI, all- My internet connection to Cox.net with Mandrake 8.2 was also a 
no-brainer.    Unfortunately, ongoing connectivity is another matter. At 
least once every couple of days, I log on to only to discover that 
DHCPCD has lost the connection. It seems like DHCPCD does not know that 
it needs to do over, as once I do a "dhcpcd -k" followed by "dhcpcd" I 
am fine. Is there a straightforward way to diagnose and fix this? It is 
really getting to be a pain in the ass.


Lee Einer

Jonathan Claxton wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Craig S. wrote:
>
>>All I can say is wow! I have never used DHCP before or tried to setup a
>>*nix system with a DHCP connection. It was much easier than I expected,
>>no wonder there are hardly any how-to's for specific connections. I
>>dropped a netgear FA-310TX 10/100MB card into one of my PCI slots. Setup
>>tulip drivers for kernel and setup the new image. Hooked up the cable
>>modem, ran ifconfig and answered 3 questions: 
>>
>
>Welp, welcome to the VERY FAST lane!!!!! :)
>
>>rebooted the system and bam.... I was online. I am a little concerned
>>about security cause I guess I have a static IP now or at least the
>>cable modem has a static IP. I set hosts.deny to not allow any outside
>>connections (to ports?), outside of AIM, nntp, e-mail, www, and ftp I
>>don't do much else. and with AIM I have a set list of people that I
>>correspond with and that is it. Should I setup iptables for a little
>>more insurance? I don't have anything really confidential or needing
>>security, all my work now is with genetic algorithms and neural nets
>>which I backup periodically. My main security concern is someone just
>>maliciously or even just a curiosity seeker getting user access or
>>rooting the system and screwing it up in the process because I am lazy
>>and don't want to reconfigure my system from scratch. I have been
>>watching my logs, using netstat, and using other basic security measures
>>and haven't seen any malicious activity that I notice but as I said
>>before I am no netwo!  rk security guru. Hell I am not even a network
>>guru.
>>
>
>Do what I did when I got Cox HSI server... get a firewall router. I got
>one and I can go to sleep knowing that I don't worry about the "crackers"
>trying to get into my home network.
>
>I got a NetGear RP114 router and it was VERY easy to get it going. 
>
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