Subj : Need a little help
To   : Rich Wonneberger
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Sun Feb 27 2005 05:22 pm

Hi Rich,

 RW> *** Quoting Mark Lewis to Rich Wonneberger dated 02-25-05 ***
>  RW> I am able to blank it out & exit with save.
>  RW> (Warp 4 fp16 (iIrr))
> 
> right... and that is exactly what it keeps coming back... put something
> in there, yourself... try TCPturtil and see what happens ;)

 RW> Mark,

 RW> Changes back to frontiernet.net at the next re-boot.

Ok, lets see if I have this correct -

  1. You are using a LinkSys Router to provide you with DHCP on your local LAN, 

  2. After firing up your OS/2 machine it gets a "new" Domain name of 
"frontiernet.net" regardless of what you configure in the OS/2 TCP/IP setup.
  3. This means your LINKSYS is doing the Domina Name dirty to you via DHCP and 
no amount of stuffing around with OS/2 TCP/IP settings under OS/2 is going to 
alter that, short of disabling your OS/2 DHCP Client. 

Are you able to change your domain name as PROVIDED by the DHCP Server in the 
Linksys, or will that break something else (EG: your login to your ISP as used 
by the LinkSys)?

DHCP is VERY configureable, but most of it is hidden from the user because it 
can be rather complex in some situations, and there can be unexpect3ed side 
effects. A lot can depend on how your ISP operates as well...

I can't remember what the original issue was, but you need to be able to 
control the DHCP Server operation if you wish to run Services that (currently) 
conflict with what your ISP is doing.

Cheers...................pk.


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