[ale] Linux router help needed......again

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:39, Jim Seymour wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> General background only to shorten email. Set up a Debian Sarge box as
> router for a WinXP box using dhcp3 and ipmasq for nat. Result: WinXp box
> gets ip address and indicates it is connected to lan but cannot access
> the internet. I have read every man I can find and have been unable to
> get anywhere for days now :-( Any help or a very complete read somewhere
> appreciated. Looking at the firewall it does not show any requests from
> it being dropped.
I have recurring issues with XP not being able to set the dns servers
based on the Linux dhcp server.  If the XP box is part of a domain (XP
Pro) it gets worse. The solution has been to set the dns manually on the
XP box 

> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
> Jim Seymour
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