Try resetting the cable modem. Power off the modem for a minute, connect to ur original setup and bring up the interface
Sridhar ----- Original Message ----- From: "ryan_steffes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:19 PM Subject: [expert] Comcast Switchover (DHCP Problem) > Here in South Jersey we have not "officially" made the switch. However, > Friday morning without warning my cable modem stopped working. > > Previous set up: > > Cable Modem > || (eth1 STATIC IP) > Linux > || (eth0 Internal IP) > Switch ===== Win 98 > || > || > Win Me > > Reading up on how the change went down (and after waiting 3 hours on > hold without getting to talk to ANYONE) in other places, I set my Win 98 > box to DHCP and plugged it directly into the Cable Modem. On a reboot, > that worked, but that's not my desired solution. I figured it couldn't > bet that hard to do the same for the Linux box, so I redid the cables to > the original config above and used linux. > > I have the following DHCP rpms installed (rpm -qa | grep dhcp): > > dhcpcd-1.3.20pl0-1mdk > dhcp-common-3.0-0.rc12.1mdk > dhcpxd-1.0.3-8mdk > dhcp-client-3.0-0.rc12.1mdk > > I used linuxconf to set eth1 to DHCP and let it reload the config. On > the reload it failed to bring up eth1 saying it timed out. Clues? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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