[rh8.0] losing ip-adress or not even sending one

[Yttrium]

for sharing my internet i found some scripts and mixed them together, now the problem is that when the client has booted while the win2k server is on everythings fine even when i change to linux everything still works (msn, internet, email, ...) but when it boots while linux is on it doesn't get any ip??? when i ping the client there seems to be nothing wrong (the same when i ping the server from the client). the script i use is:

#!/bin/sh
IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables
EXTIF="eth1"
INTIF="eth0"
echo " External Interface: $EXTIF"
echo " Internal Interface: $INTIF"
echo -en " loading modules: "

echo " - Verifying that all kernel modules are ok"
/sbin/depmod -a

echo -en "ip_tables, "
/sbin/insmod ip_tables
echo -en "ip_conntrack, "
/sbin/insmod ip_conntrack
echo -en "ip_conntrack_ftp, "
/sbin/insmod ip_conntrack_ftp
echo -en "iptable_nat, "
/sbin/insmod iptable_nat
echo -en "ip_nat_ftp, "
/sbin/insmod ip_nat_ftp
echo " enabling forwarding.."
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
echo " enabling DynamicAddr.."
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
echo " clearing any existing rules and setting default policy.."
$IPTABLES -P INPUT ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -F INPUT
$IPTABLES -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -F OUTPUT
$IPTABLES -P FORWARD DROP
$IPTABLES -F FORWARD
$IPTABLES -t nat -F

echo " FWD: Allow all connections OUT and only existing and related ones IN"
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $INTIF -o $EXTIF -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -j LOG

echo " Enabling SNAT (MASQUERADE) functionality on $EXTIF"
$IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $EXTIF -j MASQUERADE

oh, and i forgot to mention the ip's
server: 192.168.0.1 and subnetmask 255.255.255.0
client: 192.168.0.2 and the same subnetmask

hope someone finds the mistake because it's really starting to bug me

thanx hehe

[Dolda2000]

How do you mean that it doesn't get an IP addr? Both computers already have one (192.168.0.[12]), right? Which computer is it that gets into trouble, the server or the client?

[Yttrium]

How do you mean that it doesn't get an IP addr? Both computers already have one (192.168.0.[12]), right? Which computer is it that gets into trouble, the server or the client?

the client ... it looses its connection and nothing works anymore! forgot to mention that DHCP aint installed so it shouldn't be part of the problem ...

[Yttrium]

just to let you guys know and maybe for people who try the search and hook up with this topic. i found the answer ... i forgot to add the dns servers from my ISP to the DNS list in the TCP/IP section of the network configuration ... so that's the stupid mistake i made hehehe ...