On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> what do you mean? I have ISDN using DHCP (i'm using redhat 5.2 by the way)
> and linux automatically figured it out when i set up my network card. i'm
> getting a cable modem installed next week and i need to know if there's
> anything else i'm going to need to do. i was planning on just reinstalling (i
> need to anyways), and just telling it to use DHCP. will that not work? it
> also may be that you're not using redhat 5.2, so it doesn't set that up
> automatically for you. sorry i couldn't help you, but i'd really appreciate
> it if you could help me
redhat just gives you the scripts (in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts) so
that you can define an interface to use dhcp and it will launch the
dhcpcd, wait for it to finish, then do some other stuff (such as
installing the resolv.conf the dhcp server gives you).
the DHCP client broadcasts to find it's server, regardless of the media.
You shouldn't need the name for anything (if you have to give it a name of
a server, it's not very dynamic, is it?).
Don't worry, all you need to do to go from ISDN to broadband is install a
NIC (which time warner will do for a fee), and connect it to the bridge.
Then DHCP an address. The truly unique and difficult (for non-wintel)
part is to authenticate to their network. For those of us with Linux
there is a perl script to run. Eventually I'd like to have a C program
instead, but I'm a very slow coder, especially in C.
Note: everywhere I've read about RoadRunner the authentication is
different -- so the login for San Diego doesn't work in Austin, etc. You
need the Austin specific protocol, which AFAIK is only impelemented in
Perl (yet).
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