On Monday 16 April 2001 13:23, you wrote:
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> I've used RealTek NICs, with no problems. Do you have a link
> light on your cable modem? Here in San Antonio, RR uses Toshiba
> PCX1100 modems...is the PC light on? Is the link light on your
Hi Phil
There are some interesting anomalies using a cable modem
1. If you change the physical network card, you must coldboot the network
modem (ie pull the power cord) for it to get a DHCP address
2. If you are using 2 network cards and use eth1 as DHCP to configure your
internal network, the
THanks for the info guys but still no ,I've tried these but on ifup eth0
I still get Ip info failed..
At 04:23 AM 4/16/2001, you wrote:
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>RR does give hostnames, via the dhcp process, and they are usually some funky
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RR does give hostnames, via the dhcp process, and they are usually some funky
long thing with part of the IP address in it.
It should work by simply running netconf, setting the adapter to dhcp, then
doing an ifup eth0 (if eth0 is your etherne
Hmmm, i got a reply to this post before i got the post itself.
When you subscribed to your Roadrunner ISP, did they give you a hostname? I'm betting
they did.
Let's pretend that is something like cr934573-a. Then try this on for size:
[root@homer john]# dhcpcd -h cr934573-a
[root@homer john]#
First off, DHCP *should* work for you if you have a DHCP server on your
domain that you can authenticate to (i.e. your Ethernet (MAC) address is
registered with the server and it knows what IP to assign you).
But, since this isn't a perfect world, that may not always work. DHCP on
a Windows mach