Hello Chris,
> I asked about connecting to Optus At Home cable modem service here a
> while ago and now I've finally gotten around to actually trying [...]
> The only things Optus supplied were a CD of Win98 software with a card
> attached which gave his username (email prefix) and his cryptic hostname.
> My information was that everything else was obtained by DHCP - the IP
> address, the subnet mask [...] The Win2000 machine also listed a DHCP
> server address, but I couldn't see where to put it, and 2 DNS servers -
> which I did add. It also listed a date for a "lease obtained", with an
> expiry 1 week later.
As far as I know, the DHCP client sends its first request (DHCP discover)
as a broadcast, and that's exactly because in this way you don't need to
know the DHCP server's address beforehand, so there shouldn't be a place
where you can type the DHCP server address; maybe one where you can read
it afterwards, but there is no need either. The "broken DHCP
implementation used by Windows", as the MiamiDx guide puts it, also wants
an hostname in the request, and I guess that might be the "cryptic
hostname" you have on your card.
Given that, things should work, unless of course there's some compatibility
problem between the DHCP client and server. 8-/ I know the story way too
well: when I got my ADSL line, it wouldn't work with MiamiDx because the
PPP server was broken, and I had to patch MiamiDx.
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