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> > Typing udhcpc should assign an IP number to
> > your computer
>
> udhcpc only works if there is a DHCP server
> listening on the network.
>
> > and also add the default gateway (DNS server)
>
> The default gateway is not the DNS server.  The
> default gateway simply routes traffic from one
> network to another (eg from you home network
> to the internet).  The DNS server is different
> -- it converts alphanumeric internet addresses
> (eg slashdot.org) to numerical IP addresses
> (eg 216.34.181.45).

I assumed he was using a router to reach the internet.
I followed your instructions once on setting up a linux computer as 
default gateway, and sharing a phone modem connection.
Could I run a DHCP server on that computer instead?
(Not that two of us really need to share a modem connection).
Someone gave me a little box that is supposed to let you share dialup 
connection.  Maybe it runs linux.  I never got it to work.
Sindi

> Of course you can run a DNS server on the system
> that is providing the default gateway.  Or you
> could run a DHCP server.  Or any other kind of
> server (eg a HTTP server for remote configuration
> of the gateway).  In that case the address of the
> default gateway and the DNS server and the DHCP
> server and the HTTP server will all be the same.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
>
>
> = your router.
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> > included?
> >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Marcelo Campos
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