[TriLUG] DHCP on debian firewall

[Ben Pitzer]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 15:40, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> I have setup a firewall using PCMCIA nics in an old toshiba running the
> latest debian woody.  I have dhcp running on it to server ips. I am hooking
> into a 10mb hub. I cannot get a lease from my other machine. Here are the
> settings:
> 
> ifconfig:
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:A8:91:77
>           inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Mask:255.255.0.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:50504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:5076214 (4.8 MiB)  TX bytes:16641 (16.2 KiB)
>           Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:A8:91:78
>           inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.224

<SNIP>

> option subnet-mask      255.255.255.0;

Shouldn't these netmasks match?

Regards,
Ben Pitzer