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

[Fred James]

I share this for anyone that might be in the same situation.
(1) Ken's suggestion was useful - thank you Ken.
(2) AT&T finally coughed up the IP's for their Primary and Secondary DNS 
- very helpful - 204.127.198.4, and 63.240.76.4, respectively, is what I 
was told, and everything is working fine now (DHCP through a Linksys 
Cable/DSL router/firewall).


Fred James wrote:

> 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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