Hello all,
I have set up my system so that it uses a hard-coded IP address 192.168.1.2
This worked fine for my purposes but now I wish to connect the machine to the internet and get dynamically generated IP address from a provider (I thin that this is DNS)
Can someone please point me in the direction of how this can be done using YAST2?
Any help, hints or advice is greatly appreciated 
TIA
Hi
You mean DHCP 
Assuming your connecting to an external router then if
you change your network device from static to dhcp it should give your
system the ip address, gateway address and DNS addresses.
If your not connecting through a DSL router, please provide details.
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Private ip addresses like 192.168.1.2 are not routable on the internet, only on your lan.
If you have a router it most likely has a DHCP server that you can turn on and this will lease private ip addresses to your hosts on the local lan.
This same router will also connect to your ISP and obtain the public ip address from their radius server.
The router will translate the private addresses into your isp issue public address for you network.
Good Luck