On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:22:09AM +1000, George Vieira wrote:
| 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.
[...]
| 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.
Yes, this is their setup.
| 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
This won't help - that's name lookup, not hostname,
| /etc/HOSTNAME
Hmm. Something uses thing?
| 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).
Yah. Mine's been stable for months, but you really do want DHCP working so
that if they change things your end will track transparently.
| What else could be the problem. I never actually set up a DHCP client under
| linux but I think it was requesting an IP.
The Redhat DHCP client is known to have troubles. I'm using dhcpcd which
comes from the same people who issue BIND.
Now, others on this list have said that it was enough to make redhat use pump
(was it pump?) I had limited success that way (my own cluelessness perhaps) and
went the whole hog:
- disable the optus-side ethernet by setting ONBOOT=no in my
ifcfg-eth1 file (i.e. stop the stock redhat startup using it)
- installed dhcpcd from the ISC site (www.isc.org ?)
- added a new startup file to /etc/rc.d/init.d called dhcpcd
to bring the link up and ran chkconfig to activitate it.
I'll just ssh into my home machine (god I love cable!) and get the files...
Ok. Attached is a tar file with my setup in it.
You'll find:
etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpcd the startup script
etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.exe run by dhcpcd when the link comes up
etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.info the dhcpcd config: adjust to suit
etc/rc.d/init.d/firewall the firewalling rules, will require
much adjustment; they're setup for a
home network on 192.168.1.*
Of course, you must install DHCP from the ISC people. I'm using
dhcp-3.0b1pl13. This will all need some adjustment for your machine.
Read and understand before use!
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
dh.tar.gz
