Quote Originally Posted by user unknown
I don't know NAT - perhaps it's the point.

My question is: I have a /etc/host:
192.168.4.2 desktop
192.168.4.3 laptop

To make a filetransfer, I start ftpd on the desktop, and
ftp desktop
on the laptop.

When I use dhcp (and NAT?) the laptop will find the desktop too?
How?
Thanks for the reply Unknown.

..You seem to be talking about LAN-side DNS name resolution (resolving the name 'desktop' to an IP address) using the static hosts mechanism.. this is bit off-topic re: my LAN-side DHCP client issue with Knoppix.
My N.A.T (In-fact should've been P.A.T!) is a side-issue and not related to DHCP within the LAN - it is not affecting the clients ability to obtain an IP address.

PM me and I'll discuss, but I think we should leave this thread in the direction of working out why DHCP is not working in Knoppix (with my config/instance) when it works on the same machine when booting into Windows..

noapic
Also, I tried putting the 'noapic' option into my lilo.conf - no joy unfortunately ;(

Syslog [tail]
I ran syslog whilst running
Code:
pump -i eth0
after killing any pump instances in memory, and this is the common output:

Aug 17 22:38:49 Knoppix pumpd[811]: PUMP: sending discover
Aug 17 22:38:49 Knoppix pumpd[811]: reject: xid: 0x41332561 <--> 0x536b10f1
Aug 17 22:38:49 Knoppix pumpd[1054]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:07:22) Tue Aug 17 22:38:49 2004 (I restarted eth0 here as it keeps going down)
Aug 17 22:38:49 Knoppix pumpd[1054]: PUMP: sending discover
Aug 17 22:38:49 Knoppix pumpd[1054]: reject: xid: 0x37254133 <--> 0x536b1048
Thanks again everyone who has and may contribute to this thread