RE: [SLUG] Optus cable ... once again..

[George Vieira <georgev@nospam.citadelcomputer.com.au>]

According to the guy who brought his cable modem over (as we thought the
modem my nephew had may have been playing up), he said that the IPs change
once a month (or so) by Optus..

I'm yet to see if this is actually true or not.

OK. I'll try dhclient..

thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au



-----Original Message-----
From: Mehmet Ozdemir [mailto:mehmeto@nospam.bytelink.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 June 2000 2:01 PM
To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Optus cable ... once again..


I'm using RH6.2, but all the instructions I read on the various posts on the
athome ng sugested dhclient, which is really easy to use, btw from what I've
read on the optus ng's the optus basically keeps giving you the same ip
address. You may be able to get away with not even setup a dhcp client. My
personal experience has been that as well, atleast it has since I've been
using the service (late march).

Mehmet Ozdemir

> I'm actually using the RedHat 6.1 version called dhcpc or something
> similar..
> 
> I remember that in /etc/sysconfig/network has a host name in there too
> but I
> didn't try it at the time.
> 
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Administrator
> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
> http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mehmet Ozdemir [mailto:mehmeto@nospam.bytelink.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 June 2000 11:50 AM
> To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Optus cable ... once again..
> 
> 
> > 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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