Originally posted by: dkcc

Hi All,
I have an Intellistation 9114-275 running AIX 5.2 and
have been trying to figure out how to get a DSL connection
established. (DSL access as a client system. Not a server
system.)
What I am not sure about is just what informtion I need
my ISP to provide so that I can configure the DHCP facility
in AIX. Most ISP I have talked to just support Microsoft
(and maybe Apple). Mention AIX and the line goes silent or
that ends the conversation.
Does any one know what information I need my ISP to provide
and does any one have any hints as to how I go about using
SMIT to configure the DHCP facility? That is; just how much
of the DHCP stuff in SMIT really needs to be setup!?

Thanks
Dwight
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

DHCP servers are configured to provide the following (in a normal scenario)

IP Adddress
Subnet Mask
Default Gateway

The most missing part used to be
Name Servers (DNS) & Domain
You may have to get this info from your ISP and update in /etc/resov.conf

Keep an eye on /usr/tmp/dhcpsd.log when the DHCP requests are made.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

At the command line, enter smit usedhcp.

All you really need to specify is the name of the interface you are using and the server's IP address.
The hostname usually belongs to the client - so, you can also fill in that field.

The DHCP server shouldn't care whether the client is a PC running Windows or a p5/p6 running AIX.
All the server needs to know is the MAC address of the adapter on the client making the request.
When the server recognizes the client's MAC address, it sends back the appropriate IP information.

Hope that helps.
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Originally posted by: dkcc

Hi All,
Thanks for the input.
I can use all the help I can get.
I do everything on my system which is OK for
most things; but I am definitly not an expert
when it comes to communications stuff.
IBM provided a cookbook approach for the dial up
connection so I figured out how to do that. However;
there does not seem to be a similar thing for DHCP.
Thus the request for help.

Currenly I am fighting with firefox. So I probably
will not be able to work on this problem for a while.
(Probably after Novermber - I hear that IBM will be
releasing a newer version of firefox. Hopefully
it will not abort, hang or kill my system like the
current version has a tendency to do.!)

Thanks again for all the assistance!

Bye,
Dwight
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