try this command:
$ pump -i eth1
that should pull a dhcp address and gateway for your eth1.
--- "Vaughn Treude" <
vltreude@deru.com> wrote:
> > > > charset=iso-8859-1">
> > > > > Hello folks:
> Thanks for your > suggestion when
> I was moaning about my problems with Getnet. I've switched to > Deru, but
> I've already got problems. As you would suspect, they don't help > you with
> Linux, just Windows. I was able to get it working with a direct > connection
> to my laptop in its Windows incarnation, but that's not much good. > I have
> an old PC running Mandrake 7 that I was using as a firewall - it has two >
NIC's -
> so I can get Internet service on every machine in my network. > That's the
> machine that doesn't want to work for me.
> The problem is they > changed me
> from a static IP (Getnet had that) back to DHCP (which I originally had >
working
> for my Qwest DSL service.) The device on the Cisco modem is > eth1.
> That goofy eth1 wouldn't let me change its IP address with ifconfig; it > was
> stuck at that fixed address. I finally ended up rebooting it, and > the
> address was gone. I also set its eth1 script to include the lines
> "ONBOOT=yes" and "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" as recommended in some article I > found in
a
> Google search. Now the trouble is that I can't change the routing > with the
> route command. First it wouldn't let me remove the old Getnet > static IP at
> all until I removed it from the "/etc/hosts" file and rebooted. > Now I
> can't add a default root at all. For one thing, I don't know what > to use
> for a gateway designation. I added "gateway1" to the "hosts" file > with an
> address of "0.0.0.0", but I don't know if that's correct or not. > Then if I
> try to say "route add default gw gateway1" it says "Invalid > argument."
> (Which one?) That probably doesn't make sense anyway. If, on > the
> other hand, I try "route add default dev eth1" the error is "No such
> device." Not true! But the problem may be that eth1, > according to
> ifconfig, has no IP address. But I can't set it to any specific > address,
> because Deru's DHCP server is supposed to give us one. But how do > we get
> that address? I vaguely remember something about the "dhclient" > command,
> but that's lost in the mists of time (didn't write down the
> parameters!) Also, it seems someone in PLUG told me I shouldn't > need to
> run dhclient.
> Any > suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> Vaughn
>
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