by I had asked for some help earlier on a cable modem setup, and,
having now gone through the ordeal (not really) myself, I thought I'd
share some results (if you have PPP running off a DHCP server, this will
probably work for you too).
Background: I just got a cable modem (Lancity single user, see
www.lancity.com) installed and access (through highway1.com) to the net
at 1.3M/s. They (highway1) give you plenty of Win95 support, but they
won't touch linux.
Problem: The network uses Dynamip IP addressing. They do this by
having your (client) computer probe their (server) computer's DHCP
server to obtain a new address every time the modem reboots (which really
shouldn't happen except for power outages, etc...).
Solution: In Win95, all you need to do is run winipcfg. However,
Linux distributions do not come with dhcp built in.
All you need to do is find out a little about DHCP, what it does and
how it works:
"http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/comfaqs/dhcp.faq.html" is the URL for the
DHCP FAQ.
Then, once you're familiar with it, download the DHCP protocal client
daemon. Someone had posted it as being in incoming at sunsite,
but by the time I got there it had already been moved. in URL
form, it's now at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/daemons/dhcpcd-0.4.tar.gz
download, read the README, compile and put it in tyour rc.d startup file
of preference and you should be off. works like a beauty.
thanks to all those who helped me.
-alan
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