[lug] Att at home

[John Hernandez]

Are you passing the computer name via pump or dhcpcd?  For example:

pump -h C192338-A
dhcpcd -h C192338-A

I think you can even set it as a parameter in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and it will be passed automatically.

-John

Jeremy wrote:
> 
> hello all,
> 
> I just got Att at home installed and would like to use my
> Redhat 7.1 Firewall box  to Masq for me.  I had the same setup for
> my previous endeavor into broadband, Sprint Broadband Direct.  All I had to
> do then was set my eth0 to DHCP and Nat the rest of the network behind eth1.
> 
> It seems as though Att is doing something weird.  I had my win98 box hooked
> to it last night and As long as I had the copmuter named the way they (att)
> wanted it, DHCP would work.  Now when I try the RH box netcfg just sits
> waiting for IP's.  I did name the computer the way they wanted it.
> 
> Now for the question...Has anyone got att at home running using RH 7.1?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Jeremy Schroeder
> 
> 
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