From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Miller Subject: Re: basic networking queries Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:33:53 -0500 (CDT) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030724200741.01ee7cc0@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030724200741.01ee7cc0@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux-Newbie list On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: Thanks for your answer, Ray. I didn't provide much detail because, rather than trying to set something up specifically or trying to troubleshoot, I was trying to understand better *in theory* something about networking - namely about how DHCP works. I know so little about it, in fact, that I'm not sure what sort of information to provide. I do use a Slackware variant. As I mentioned, I know from sources connected with this variant that some form of dhcp is enabled on it (dhcpd?) and maybe just runs as a background process. But this is really already further than I want to go with this. I'm just trying to better my grasp on some of the fundamentals of how dhcp works, what sort of info it needs/uses and the like. One of those touchy-feely inquiries, you know, where you're not even sure which questions to ask to get started learning? I don't know, maybe you already know everything about everything and don't find yourself in those sorts of situations. But I sure do (not ashamed of admitting it, either). Anyway, this sort of inquiry goes in stages for me: I start with some probings, which helps me get bearings and know what further to ask, where further to look. At some later stage of the learning process, I can then formulate more specific questions related to some task. But I'm just not at that stage yet with DHCP. Is a linux-newbie list not the place to make those sorts of inquiries? James PS I had some problems getting that message to the list, since my initial post got lost. Maybe I didn't formulate things very clearly in the rewriting, with the disappointment of having lost what I'd earlier started. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs