Re: [PLUG] Comcast @Home in South Jersey. DHCP

[LeRoy Cressy <lcressy@telocity.com>]

Is dhcp compilerd into your kernel or do you have dhcp as a loadable
module?  If there is no dhcp support in the kernel you will never get
dhcp to work.  

"Robert J. Squire Jr." wrote:
> 
> 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:
> 

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