Hello Fred
On 20-Feb-01, you wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Chris Ralph wrote:
>
>> 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 on a
>> friend's system. My system is A1200 50MHz/'060 48+2Meg ram & CNet PCMCIA
>> card.
>>
>> It worked - eventually - but I'm wondering how much was because I could
>> get the settings from the Win2000 machine, whose connection I used.
>>
lots of useful information snipped here.....thanks Fred.
>
> Only the hostname matters.
>
>> DHCP to start myself off. Perhaps, because the Win2000 machine already
>> had a "lease", my attempt to get those numbers via DHCP failed. Or
>> perhaps we should have powered down the modem and started from a clean
>> slate. The modem is a "DOCSIS" standard cable modem.
Slight misunderstanding here. We disconnected the Win machine and used it's
cable connection. Normally this machine is used to route to 2 other Win
machines, but that was not what we tried. We just pulled the plug from the
Win machine and put it into the PCMCIA interface connection.
> If it's like AT&T@Home, you need to pay extra to get multiple IPs.
> Otherwise, you'll need to take one machine offline before you can put the
> other online, or arrange some form of NAT/SOCKS setup to share the link.
> And Windoze (9x at least) doesn't really have the concept of an offline
> Ethernet unless you either shut it down or play registry games.
>
> If you do get multiple IPs, you should also get multiple hostnames. This
> will distinguish the machines from each other.
>
>> I'm signing up for the service, even if I have to borrow a PC to
>> initialise it, but I'd rather be able to connect immediately, instead of
>> looking silly in front of the hardware installer.
>
> You should be able to use it directly, either with a static config or with
> DHCP, but not simultaneously with two machines on one IP address. To do
> it with DHCP, just set all the IP address types to "DHCP", and in the
> TCP/IP settings window of the Interface settings, enable DHCP, enable
> using the hostname, and put in the proper hostname for your provider. If
> you want to get the DNS IPs automatically, that setting is in the same
> window.
Thanks to an abnormally helpful person in Optus, I do have my "username",
"password", "hostname", IP address, gateway and netmask.
Apparently they don't normally bother to give this out - unless you are
running a particular version of Macintosh software.
There is also a DHCP server address, and DNS addresses.
Is there any reason to prefer either way of connecting? Static/DHCP?
And it does seem to be a licensing of "@Home" from another company.
They're due in 24hours to make the connection, and I have a borrowed Compaq
Win98 machine here, just in case the tech. gets stroppy. If he wants to go
to the trouble of installing a network card, it's drivers, and a custom
browser (with Optus acoss the top), I'll just sit and watch him waste his time.
And my friend who loaned me the machine gets a free network card!
Regards,
Chris.
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