> 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?
>From my experience the host name is required (atleast I couldn't get an ip
without it), if you're using dhclient you can specify the hostname in the
/etc/dhclient.conf file, for more info check the sample dhclient.conf that
come with it.
goto http://www.isc.org/ for more info on DHCP and dhclient.
Regards
Mehmet Ozdemir
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