Re: [PLUG] dhcp and comcast

[Anthony Locascio <thanous@dca.net>]

Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:51:00AM -0500, Michael Whitman wrote:
> > So if any one has a helpful FAQ lemee know.  I run RH 7.1 and I  used 
> > linuxconf to switch to DHCP but that didn't just work.
> >     
>
> Well, I use OpenBSD to manage the connection.  The provided DHCP client
> is dhclient, which I presume is the canonical ISC program, somewhat
> modified (according to the man page).  The only active line I have in my
> /etc/dhclient.conf is this:
>
> send host-name "cnXXXXXX-a";
>     
    
I know its odd but i never had to list this...... I had my own host name
specified and it never caused a problem..  *shrug*
> The "cnXXXXXX-a" is the hostname that you were provided when you called
> them initially after you received your kit in the mail.  It's also the
> hostname portion of the FQDN that you get when you do a reverse lookup
> of your IP address.
>
> Basically, if whatever you're using allows you to specify a host name,
> then specify it.  If you can't, try different software.
>
> As for the connection itself, it's just straight ethernet, no PPPoE.
> You just get your IP and DNS configuration via DHCP.
>       
      
SOOO do I need a third party utilty installed to run this?  Some people seem
to be favoring adding in something (the something being of course different
across the different distrobutions) and I am not sure what that is.  
      
Anyway, thanks :)
      
Anthony
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