ok i have an one cable internet connection
i have a v old pc running knoppix 3.6 which works using this connection /shutdown/halt/reboot she will fire up and connect to the internet. she is also my server (she is a 386 with about 64 meg of mem and a 10gb hd!!!)

i want to upgrade to a faster pc so i have a 512 meg mem/120gb hd also with knoppix 3.6 on

the thing is once installed and rebooted i have to reconfigure eth0 each time to pick up the dhcp for the ipaddress (btw i have reformated the hd with various flavours of knoppix from 3.3 to 3.8.1 and non of them hold the settings for the eth0 i hae compaired /etc/network files between the 2 machines and there is no difference)

to clarify only one pc is on at a time as i only have on connection to the internet (i have not even attempted to plug this in to my lan until i can sort this out)

as i have a smattering of network knowdge i find this very frustrating!!!

your hopefully

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