Q re dhcpd.conf setup

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

Greetings;

As I get to do a bit of computer repairs from time to time, I've setup a 
little 5 address wide dhcpd server on my firewall box.  But I had a 
problem last night getting a fresh winderz XP (spit) install to 
connect, specifically I had to enter a gateway address in the tcp/ip 
properties and reboot before it would connect.  It was given an dhcp 
address according to the logs on the firewall box, but apparently not a 
gateway address.

Should the dhcpd protocol have handled that?  It is not setup in the 
dhcpd.conf I'm using, and I can find no references to defining a 
"gateway address" in any of the dhcp related manpages, which does seem 
a bit odd to me.

It never crossed my mind when setting it for my new lappy running FC5 
because I'd already set that up on a fixed address basis before 
converting it to BOOTPROTO=dhcp in the ifcfg-wlan0 file.

The dhcpd daemon itself is running on my firewall, a rh7.3 box.

A second question:  How can one add a level of security by password 
protecting this dhcp login, makeing the client supply a correct 
password before the lease is negotiated?  That doesn't seem to be 
mentioned in the manpages either.

-- 
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