[NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T@Home redux

[Michael Patrick]

To be honest, I was reading one of the DHCP RFCs one day and fooling around 
with Network Monitor on a Windows machine, but what you show looks promising.

My IPs haven't changed in over a year, so I just have them added statically 
to the outside interface of the ipchains/nat box.

Michael

At 08:37 2001-03-07 -0600, you wrote:
>Michael,
>
>Is THIS the option to which you are referring?
>
>man dhcpcd | grep hostname
>        -h hostname
>               specifies a string used for the hostname option field when
>dhcpcd sends DHCP messages. Some DHCP servers
>               require the hostname option field containing a specific string
>in the DHCP messages from clients.
>
>so a dhcpcd -h c12345-a  _should_ work?
>
>I need to take a Linux box over to my m-in-law's and try this out. I
>wondered how that AT&T required that name.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Patrick" <michael at techiesplace.com>
>To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:27 AM
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T at Home redux
>
>
> > Ian,
> >
> > I think you will find the issue is a little known DHCP client hostname
> > field in the DHCP Request.  Try using the fully qualified domain name (or
> > maybe even just hostname) they gave you.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > At 20:46 2001-03-06 +0600, you wrote:
> > >High speed Internet access has finally come to the technological back-
> > >water of Valley Ranch.  Unfortunately it has come in the form of AT&T
> > >@Home, so it looks like I now live in a Windows-only zone.
> > >
> > >I just schlepped my laptop over to the house of a friend who has the
> > >service installed, and I verified that it is impossible to get an IP
> > >address without the supplied NETBIOS name.  A quick test with Samba was
> > >unsuccessful.
> > >
> > >Before I retreat to a cave in the mountains out of complete disgust, has
> > >anyone been able to get this new variant of @Home working with Linux?
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >--
> > >========================================================================
> > >Ian Pilcher                                       pilcher at concentric.net
> > >========================================================================
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