Hello all,
I set up a server that has dhcp going. This works 100% as I get ipaddresses. My question is how do these internal computers connect to the internet? There is a proxy that needs to be passed as well…
Is this just a simple case of portforwarding or is this a completely different thing?
Thanks for your time
Lintwurm
The question is far too vague. It is hard to answer the question when we don’t know what is being asked.
Is it working and you just want to know how, or is there something not working? If there is something not working, what is it?
Are you using some sort of router?
What kind of proxy are you referring to?
OP, it sounds like you are trying to use Linux as a router/gateway. Is that the case? Or does your LAN already have a router? What is the topology anyway?
OP,
That is a pretty standard question. Oftentimes a WebProxy can be passed which is different than the DG. Although I’ve personally dealt with DHCP often, I haven’t very recently on OpenSuSE.
But, for starters as I skim the OpenSuSE repo, it looks like there are a few different DHCP servers available. I assume though that you will want to install the ISC version which looks to be the standard DHCP Server.
Note also that the OpenSuSE repo also provides an RPM doc package which likely describes how to manually configure your DHCP server (maybe more) and a yast2-dhcp-server RPM which should enable you to configure your DHCP Server from within YAST.
If you still have a problem configuring, post back. It’s probably time for me to install a recent OpenSuSE DHCP server anyway…
Tony
Minor update/contrib:
Last night, I decided to take a look at related documentation…
Since I last installed a DHCP Webproxy option, there has been a small update in how to configure, now two option lines should be entered into the DHCP config file.
Is still fairly straightforward and there are many cookbooks on the Internet, simply Google WPAD, ISC DHCP.
General idea is to deploy a small javascript file somewhere in your network which instructs/configures the client web browser how to connect, then using DHCP (or DNS or some other method) pass that URL or URI to your clients. DHCP is most convenient and flexible to do this.
As I posted, postback if you still have a problem.
Tony