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

[maxmail@nospam.optushome.com.au]

>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:
Pump is used to update the leased lines. So your not trying to use a outofdate ip.
>
>	- 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        cs@nospam.zip.com.au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>
>To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
>


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