Hello:
I recently signed up for Comcas's @Home cable service and am having
difficulty configuring my Debian Potato machine to use a dhcp client to
communicate with the service.
The technician that I spoke to during the initial setup gave me the
current ip address, gateway, netmask, and DNS servers. These work fine
when I configure /etc/network/interfaces like so:
#Lan adapter
iface eth0 inet static
address: 192.168.1.5
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
#@Home adapter
iface eth1 inet static
address <ip.address.from.comcast>
network <ip.address.from.comcast>
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway <gateway.address.from.comcast>
I just left my resolv.conf alone with my isp's nameservers and all is
well with my connection. However the addresses I'm using are subject to
change without notice so a dynamic solution is necessary.
I installed the dhcpcd package and added the following to
/etc/dhcpcd/config
OPTIONS='-h "hostnamefromcomcast"'
My /etc/hostname file reads as follows:
hostnamefromcomcast
and my /etc/hosts file contains the line:
192.168.1.5 hostnamefromcomcast.tnvl1.nj.home.com
I thought this was all that was necessary but my syslog reflects
timeouts from dhcpc trying to get an address. (timeout is currently 60
seconds.) Naturally when I try to ifup eth1 I get a message telling
me that dhcpcd is not running because it timed out and died.
If anyone has a similar configuration and know where I've gone wrong I'd
appreciate their input. But please be gentle, my pride is damaged by
this defeat.
To add insult to injury I plugged the cable modem into a win2k box and
set the computer name to hostnamefromcomcast and the workgroup to @home
and dns and ip address to dynamic and the machine connected instantly
with tcp/ip settings that match the values provided by the comcast
technician.
Thanks in advance:
Robert Squire
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