Relative newbie needs help getting network working

[Frank W. Zammetti (MLists)]

On Fri, January 7, 2005 2:22 pm, Rick Stevens said:
> It depends on what software your DHCP server is running.  Many older
> Windows-based DHCP servers didn't properly implement DHCP and a lot of
> DHCP clients wouldn't work.

Good info Rick, thank you.  I'm not sure what DHCP server we're running
any longer.  I *believe* it's running on Unix, but it also could be
Novell.  We've used both at one time or another, but I don't recall us
ever using Microsoft for DHCP.

> There is no Red Hat Linux 9.2.  Before everything went commercial, the
> last Red Hat Linux was 9 (no dot, no 2).  Red Hat's commercial products
> are Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 in four flavors: Advanced Server 3 (AS3),
> Enhanced Server 3 (ES3), Workstation 3 (WS3) and Desktop 3.

Your right, I didn't realize it, it says Red Hat Linux relrase 9 (Shrike)
right there at the logon prompt.  My bad.  Dunno where I got the idea it
was 9.2 from.

Oh, before I forget... another poster asked me for the output of ifup when
set for DHCP... I'm a bit hesitant to try it now only because I've got it
working as a static setup, and I have some actual work to get done (trying
to test a webapp on *nix for the first time), so I may give that a shot
tomorrow.  I did in fact try ifup at one point, and to the best of my
recollection it just gave me the "cable problem?" message.  Not sure if
there was a switch to turn on more verbose messages or not.  I didn't want
that poster to think I ignored his suggestion, just putting it off is all
:)

Thanks all!

Frank