Chris Feist wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:00:26PM -0600, Perry Hoekstra wrote: > > My question is, what would prevent my firewall box from > > grabbing an IP address from my internal DHCP server versus the cable > > modem? > > Just make sure that your dhcp server only listens/responds to the interface > that is not connected to your cable modem. > > Assuming that your cable modem is on eth0 and your network is on eth1 you would > run dhcpd like this: 'dhcpd eth1'. This may differ depending on what dhcp > server you are running. Actually, it is the dhcp client (in this case pump) that I am worried about. I want it to look to the cable modem on eth0 for the DHCP server rather than eth1 which is the internal network where a second DHCP server resides for my laptop and other sundry boxes. -- Perry Hoekstra E-Commerce Architect Talent Software Services perry.hoekstra at talentemail.com