DHCP on @home

[Jordan Melville <jordan vinyladdiction com>]

Hi all,

I've finally got the NIC working, and I was about to get it going when 
suddenly my @home connection went dead. 36 hours later it came back up, and 
now my @home connection requires DHCP for configuration. (before it used 
static IPs, and I had two of them). I went into linuxconf and set eth0 to 
use DHCP for configuration. No problem I think...

I can't seem to get it to work. It gets to eth0, stops for a minute or so, 
then says it can't configure itself. Both my Win2k and Win98 machines work 
perfectly with DHCP, but their IP addresses are the same (go figure). I 
think it may have something to do with the computer name (CR-909xxx) or the 
domain they gave me (@home) to use to identify myself to the DHCP server. 
Where would I put this info into the config?

Alternatively, is there some way I can set this computer to a private IP 
and have it use my Win2K box as a proxy or router? I really only want to do 
some very minor surfing. I also will need to be able to sniff packets 
coming into my other machines for security and educational reasons.

Thanks again for any help.

Jordan.