Hi all,
I remember people talking about connecting cable to linux and just yesterday
I managed to have a go. My nephew asked if I could get his linux box going
with his new Optus cable and I agreed.
He had a problem (on Windows) which he could not browse the net but he could
ping IPs. I told him to check his DNS and he confirmed it was OK.
After numerous checks found that it would just not work... even a telnet on
an IP failed. Just ICMP worked. Optus could not help either as they weren't
even real techos.
After playing around I found the network card to be the fault and replacing
it worked. Now the thing is that DHCP would not allocate me an IP unless I
specified my machine name to be that supplied by Optus, which was something
like CO744034-A and then it worked.
Once we established a connectiona nd confirmed it all was OK, I then
attempted to get the linux box going.
I setup DHCP on eth1 and when I started up the device, I could see
activity/DHCP requests on the cable modem but it only failed. I thought
possibly it required a name so I modified:
/etc/hosts
/etc/HOSTNAME
and this still failed. I then as a test just used the last known IP address
of the windows configuration and all worked OK (until the IP expires I
guess).
What else could be the problem. I never actually set up a DHCP client under
linux but I think it was requesting an IP.
any help? Is this really a host name problem as I remember someone saying
that it's not required?
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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