From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 16:28:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vms4.rit.edu (vms4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2142337B41B for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:28:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sonic.rit.edu ([129.21.12.11]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KES3BKPT10FD6PTK@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:28:14 EST Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:27:10 -0500 From: Matt Penna Subject: Re: FBSD/DHCP talking to lan winbox In-reply-to: X-Sender: mdp1261@vmspop.isc.rit.edu To: FBSDQ Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020227191714.0440c630@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:20 PM 2/27/02 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: >I have a FBSD4.4 gateway/firewall with lan winboxs behind it. > ># dhcpd.conf > >option domain-name "a1user.com"; >option domain-name-servers 218.216.115.111, 218.216.115.112; >default-lease-time 60; >max-lease-time 60; >authoritative; >ddns-update-style none; >log-facility local7; > ># No service will be given on this subnet, but declaring it helps the ># DHCP server to understand the network topology. > >subnet 10.152.187.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { >} > > ># This is my subnet declaration. ># Max of 3 pc on lan 10.0.10.5 - 10.0.10.7 >subnet 10.0.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.248 { > range 10.0.10.5 10.0.10.7; >} It's been a while since I've set up dhcpd, but just in case I actually have a clue: you do not seem to have an 'option routers' declaration in the above file. If your Windows boxes do not know what the router's address is, and especially given that your DNS servers are not on the local subnet, the Windows boxes will probably have no idea how to reach them - or any machine outside of the local network, for that matter. You don't mention whether or not the router's IP address is hard-coded into your Windows boxes' network configuration. Check this as well, in addition to Steve's suggestion of changing your DNS server address to use DHCP. Matt P.S. If you're going to use DHCP, I really recommend you use it for every possible value. Don't mix hard-coded and dynamically assigned values unless you have a REALLY good reason, as doing so with even a handful of machines is annoying and potentially problematic at best, and a support nightmare at worst. -- Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message