[lug] attbi @Home blues

[Warren Sanders]

I too had no luck with RH 6.2 and DHCP/Pump.  I ended up plugging in my RH 7.2 
box and off it went.  Haven't had the energy to figure it out.

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Rick Casey wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:39:37 -0700
> From: Rick Casey <caseyh at colorado.edu>
> Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] attbi @Home blues
> 
> I'm a victim of the recent ATT "migration" of their Excite at Home
> customers to their attbi network. Effectively I've had no connection
> since Dec 1, and hope to find some help here. I won't get started on
> how lame ATT's "customer service" has been; they seem incapable of
> providing the few crucial pieces of technical info for configuring
> TCP/IP in Windoz since the migration. I have a dual booted machine,
> but haven't been able to connect using M$ Windoz or Linux.
> 
> I've scoured the past BLUG mail archives, and the Linux How-To on
> cable modem setup, but nothing seems to be quite current or local
> enough for this current problem. The recent thread here about
> 'misconfigured BROADCAST addr' was close, but incomplete.
> 
> Can anyone help me with the entire Network configuration in RH 6.2
> Linux (upgrading soon to 7.0), i.e. the eth0 interface, gateway, etc.?
> 
> I'm sure this is a simple problem for some on this list. What I don't
> understand is how Windoz can use DHCP to get an IP address when the
> only info it has is a Workgroup name of attbi.com? In Linux you must
> put in *some* IP address in that eth0 interface.
> 
> Appreciate any help; hopefully some others out there are in this boat,
> and would benefit from this thread.
> 
> --Rick Casey
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Warren Sanders
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