I tried to connect to a new cable connection today and had a bit of trouble the cable company setup a surfboard cable modem and a router and told us the ip address to set our machine to was 192.168.1.253 net mask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.254 , I though that was quite odd in it's self since we had specifically told them we wnated to host our own mail server. Not having a routable ip address was going to be a pain, but the installer said he was doing what he was told and left. We never could get the e-smith to connect to the internet that way. static ip So after he left we disconnected the router and connected directly to the surfboard modem. I tried all the dhcp options also with no results from any of them. then in despiration I tried going to to the command line and did an "ifup eth1" it came back with a message about dhcp and an ip address in a routable range. we had choosen tzo for our dynamic dns because they have an option to hold 5 or 10 meg of mail if we are disconnected. So now the question is: what is "ifup eth1" doing different than the network startup? do I possibly need to take the user name out of the setting and leave it blank? Will the tzo client work this way. I am not able to get back to the machine for logs or diagnose till Monday orTuesday so take your time getting back with ideas.
