Hi All ,

As this us very first attempt to use knopppix... so, please tolerate my silly queries... and ignoracne!

My laptop runs on xp machine and while connected to the office network, i boot my boot the my laptop with the knoppix 3.6 CD.

when i use ifconfig eth0... i found the IP address is 162.132.136.181 whereas hostname is knoppix! and when i ping this ip address from other machine in the network its shows a machine name which is say for example xfob132.mycompany.com. but when i reboot my laptop to my xp OS, i CANNOT ping the xfob132.mycompany.com again.

and while i was with knoppix mode, i can also browse to internet from my machine i.e it is connected to network.

My question is how can the knoppix get such ip address and machine name??? Should it be because of our poor non-secure dhcp server???

Then, this way would this knoppix laptop is a thread to our network???
can some one please let me know thier views on this..

so many thanks in advacne,