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No, you misunderstood what I wrote. Smoothwall overwrites the config of
dhcpcd.
Just clearing that up,
Bryce

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, Brian Cluff wrote:
> Looks like you stopped reading before you got to the part about dhcpcd.=20
>   It's possible to tweek it's config to not over write your wanted=20
> config as well... it's just doesn't appear to be as versatile.
> Also it doesn't HAVE to come from a power outage, all you have to do it=20
> get disconnected for a few seconds.  It just usually comes from a power=20
> outage around where I'm at... which doesn't happen very often, but if=20
> the battery backup thats on the cable modem doesn't last as long as the=20
> one on the computer than I'm hosed.  I usually have to reset the network=20
> to get it to grab another, which is always the same, IP, or I'm not=20
> going anywhere.  I probably need to get a script going in cron like I=20
> used to have on a firewall at work that has buggy ethernet drivers.  It=20
> just reset the network whenever it didn't succeed in 3 pings to various=20
> locations.  Worked well till I got a 2.4 kernel on there that fixed the=20
> problem properly :)
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> Brian Cluff
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> Bryce C wrote:
> > As for the configuration, that's not really possible. I'm running
> > smoothwall on the router and it uses dhcpcd and it tends to overwrite
> > the config.
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> >>You can do similar things with dhcpcd, althought they don't seem to be=20
> >>as powerful, but would meet your needs.  Just checkout the config file=20
> >>in /etc/dhcpc/config   You just need to comment out a line like:
> >>SET_DNS=3D'Yes'
> >>and that will keep your DNS entries.
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
CoBryce Communications

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