Setting up Windows

Setting up Windows

Building a Linux Router-Firewall

I set both windows machines as DHCP clients. The Win2K machine was amicable to the arrangement and accepted 192.168.0.1 as the assigned IP. The Win98 SE machine did not approve of this 'mélange a tois'. I had to invoke the riot act and bring in the help of winipcfg command. This small, useful applet can be run from a DOS window. It allows you to reject the present TCPIP settings and request a new set from the DHCP server. It would also be a good idea to disable any routers on the other networked computers.

- Open a DOS window

- Type 'ipconfig /all'

All info pertaining to the Workstation TCP-IP setup will be displayed

C:\>ipconfig /all
Windows 2000 IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . : BP6_Double_Celery
Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . : Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . : home.net
Ethernet adapter House Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home.net
Description . . . . . . . . .: NE2000 Compatible
Physical Address. . . . . : 00-C0-A8-35-F6-B6
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . : Disabled
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . : November 21, 2000 6:33:23 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . : November 28, 2000 6:33:23 PM

(Man-Oh-Man! I still can't turn off that IP routing)

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