[NTLUG:Discuss] @Home connection problems. Can't even ping.

[Jay Urish]

At 09:46 PM 5/24/00 , you wrote:


Kip has a static Ip.. I even tried DHCP with my winblows laptop. It 
wouldn't get an address..

The funny thing is, I put all of the static info into the laptop and it 
wouldn't work there either..

>         In my experience with @home (both in Toronto, and in Nashville,
>never used a cablemodem in Texas), they require DHCP for the clients,
>simply copying the auto-assigned Windows IP/GW/Etc won't work (Cablerouter
>thingy remembers MAC addr of NIC who DHCP'd the IP).  Try running "dhcpcd
>eth1" on the Linux boxen (assuming you want eth1 to be the interface
>connected to cablemodem), and see what you get.  Best of luck!
>
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>A.L.Lambert
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Jay Urish
Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
www.dalwan.net