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

[Kipton moravec]

Do we need to move the Ethernet card from the windows machine to the Linux
machine?

Kip

----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Urish <j at dalwan.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] @Home connection problems. Can't even ping.


> 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!
> >
> >--
> >A.L.Lambert
> >
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> Jay Urish
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