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

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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 

This is interesting.  I don't seem to have a problem at all when using 
smoothwall to provide dhcp services.  When it happens, was it permanent 
until reboot or did it finally resolve the issue on it's own?

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Until later, Geoffrey