[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: AT&T back up!

[Fred James]

Thank you for your reply - I shall give this a try this afternoon.


Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> One thing to watch out for on the Linksys routers.  If you go to the
> setup page, select "get IP address automagically", hit continue when it
> says that the settings have been saved, the old page shows up and it
> looks like nothings changed.  Change to the status page and you have
> your settings.  After that its all OK.
> 
> ...Ken
> 
> Fred James wrote:
> 
>>My discussions with AT&T today ended with them saying they do not now
>>support static IPs, and they are not sure they ever will.  A sales rep
>>from AT&T has promised to call by tomorrow afternoon to either confirm
>>or deny - will be glad to advise the list of what I am told at that time.
>>
>>I use a LinkSys DSL/Cable Router and had been using a static IP - I have
>>been trying to get it going with DHCP on the Internet side, with no
>>success so far (it all seems so cut and dried in the manual) - has
>>anyone had any success with this set up as yet?
>>
>>brian at pongonova.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Sorry about not attaching to the thread earlier...I'm not yet
>>>receiving mail from the mailing list...
>>>
>>>For those of you with AT&T, the service in Garland came up around 2000
>>>yesterday evening.  Unfortunately, AT&T is being very adamant about
>>>not giving out static IP's (I had one originally), unless you have an
>>>unsupported version of MacOS.  Anybody by chance know which versions
>>>of MacOS don't support DHCP? :)
>>>
>>>On a Linux-related note, dhclient seems to work OK with
>>>the new service.  Fire it up, point it to the right interface, and you
>>>should get a response back from AT&T's DHCP server.
>>>
>>>If this doesn't work, you might try hitting the DHCP server directly:
>>>12.242.18.34.  Also, my gateway seems to be 12.237.176.1, but YMMV
>>>depending on where you live.
>>>
>>>So maybe someone can answer me this:  If I accidentally terminate my
>>>dhclient, and never update my dynamic address, will it get reissued at
>>>some later date?  I'm pretty torqued about losing my static IP, but I
>>>don't see anywhere in my agreement requiring me to ask for a new
>>>lease.
>>>
>>>  --Brian
>>>
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