[lug] Linux and ATT at Home

[Holshouser, David]

some of the reasons that people (me) haven't @home working the first time is
that rhat uses pump, and the default config doesn't satisfy @home
requirements (I've heard that with tweaking it should, but I  haven't been
successful with pump.)

windoze method:
install @home software on windoze box
boot to windoze
get an ip
setup the rhat box to use static ip on external nic
restart network 
done
once you have an ip, it holds for a LONG time (my understanding was that
your MAC gets inserted into a table and you retain your ip forever, others
have said that lease times are LONG. As long as you don't loose your lease,
you are fine with this method, many do this.)

other method (I haven't done this, call me lazy):
install dhcpcd, it is known to work with @home
make sure to include the hostname they gave you in the dhcpcd command line
(paraphrased, not syntactically correct)
dhcpcd -h "c123456-a"
you should get an ip and be off and running.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Calvin Dodge [mailto:caldodge at fpcc.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:50 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Linux and ATT at Home
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:47:29AM -0600, Mike Gordon wrote:
> > Hi, I am a fairly new linux user, I have used UNIX quite a bit,
> > I have installed RedHat 7.1 on my home machine, and I am 
> > stuggling to get internet access working with my ATT at Home
> > service.  I have contacted ATT, and they tell me it is not
> > supported so they can't help me at all.  Can anyone tell me
> > how to get it to work?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> What kind of cable modem are you using?
> Does it connect to your computer via USB, or network port?  
> If via USB, does it have a network port available?
> If it connects via the network port, do you have the right 
> network module in use? (look in /etc/modules.conf for "alias 
> eth0 modulename")
> Did @Home give you a computer name to plug into your system? 
> (like "c575204-a")
> 
> I've gotten three separate Linux boxes to talk to @Home, so 
> I'm sure I can help you.  Feel free to respond in email if 
> you care to.
> 
> Calvin
> 
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