[lug] new to BLUG, Hello, @Home setup

[Holshouser, David]

	> Yeah I wasn't gonna bring that up. But why are you worrying about
DHCP?

Because a network of this size should be dhcp'd. I'm just being polite and
asking
for an address from the network, but nothing is coming back.
The activity light blinks once and then is quiet and eventually dhcp times
out.

I can put in the IP address that I get from windows and see what happens,
but I'd rather
dhcp->request, renew, refresh the way it's supposed to work. 

Did you make your hostname the weird Cad92240.computer.home.att.net stuff or
not?
If so, what method did you use to accomplish this?
Did you do anything else like that?

Dhcp should also keep /etc/resolv.conf updated if they ever change their
default name 
servers, gateways, etc. It's just a nicer (read, I don't have to do jack
once it's going) way 
to run the system.

So I guess I'm to understand that you haven't really done much except turn
your machine 
on and set the IP statically?
hmmm.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Starkey [SMTP:jstarkey at advancecreations.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:14 PM
> To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject:	Re: [lug] new to BLUG, Hello, @Home setup
> 
> Yeah I wasn't gonna bring that up. But why are you worrying about DHCP?
> 
> Shannon Johnston wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if this is a big help but on my @Home service even if
> you're
> > pulling an address from the DHCP server, it comes up the same every
> time.
> > I've just set that static IP address in the ifcfg-eth0 file and I'm good
> > to go.
> > Do you know if it's pushing through a different IP everythime you power
> > up?
> >
> > Shannon Johnston
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, John Starkey wrote:
> >
> > > Welcome David.
> > >
> > > There is a HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org . I can't help you with @Home and
> > > DHCP, some other member's can, I'm sure. But I thought I'd atleast let
> > > you know about this doc. I think it's appropriately called
> "Cable-modem"
> > > or something similar.
> > >
> > > Also Richard from the Linux Newbie list at rutgers created a HOWTO for
> > > his ISP in Europe. I could probably look it up for you if the General
> > > HOWTO doesn't help. It's been a year though. A quick search thru the
> > > geocrawler archives for that list should turn up a hit.
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > "Holshouser, David" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm new to the area and to BLUG.
> > > > Thanks for being here. My last LUG was always very helpful
> > > > and I look forward to working, volunteering, and learning
> > > > with you in the future.
> > > >
> > > > For now, I'm trying to get a box up on @Home that I've had on cable
> > > > in NC for a year or so with RoadRunner.
> > > >
> > > > I've searched the archives and can't find a simple explanation or
> > > > how-to, so I'm guessing that means there is nothing special to do
> > > > for @Home. Unfortunately I haven't received any response from their
> > > > dhcp server and can't get any connectivity.
> > > >
> > > > I've heard that you must set the name to whatever they assign you.
> > > > Is there any other setup 'stuff' that I need to know?
> > > > A simple list of things to do on an external web page would
> > > > serve me fine.
> > > > Must I empty my resolv.conf for dhcp to work? What about netmask?
> > > > Shouldn't dhcp reset all of that for me?
> > > >
> > > > Windoze works everytime, reboot to linux and nothing.
> > > > Again, it's been up with RR for a while.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > David Holshouser
> > > > Engineer I
> > > > Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
> > > > (303)939-5085  dholshou at ball.com
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