dhcp server

[shuiend]

i am planning on setting up a dhcp server in a couple of days but instead of a hub i am using a wireless router. i was wondering if i set it up will the router pass on address so that my wireless computers can get it?

[voidmain]

Doesn't your wireless router have a DHCP server built in to it? If not the answer should be yes to your question. I assume you then are planning on setting up a DHCP server on Linux right? I just wrote a HOWTO on setting up both a DHCP server and a Dynamic DNS server for your internal networks. If you give me the make/model of your wireless router I can give you a more definitive answer.

[shuiend]

my router is the linksys BEFW11S4. I know it has a hdcp but i want a linux box to do that and also to be a firewall for the network. for some strange reason i trust linux more then the linksys router to keep me safe. I also will be running a couple server off the box like ftp and a cs server.

[voidmain]

So you are really only going to use it as a wireless switch then. Just make sure when you get your Linux DHCP server set up that you turn off the DHCP server in the LinkSys box or things will get confusing (especially if both DHCP servers are serving the same IP ranges). Setting up DHCP on Linux really is trivial. Webmin has a good interface for configuring it or you could extract the DHCP config from my HOWTO page:

http://voidmain.kicks-ass.net/redhat/redhat_8_dhcp_dynamic_dns.html

Of course the above is a step by step HOWTO for Red Hat 8.0, if nothing else you can grab the dhcpd.conf out of the example configurations that are available for download. But then maybe you already have it all under control. If so just ignore all of this.

[shuiend]

thanks void main for the answears. I have the red hat 7.3 bible and that explains greatly how to set up my dhcp server so i dont think that is going to be a challenge. I think i am going to have the hardest time setting up iptables t forward to everything. So when i do have to set this all up in about a week or two i will be on here with more quesions

[voidmain]

So then it sounds like you will be running the web site on a machine behind your firewall rather than on the firewall itself. That's good. The best would be to run it in a DMZ but not necessary.