[CLUE-Tech] AT&T Broadband

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

Jeffery Cann wrote:

> Joe,
> 
> I feel your pain.  I already went through section 3 of the DHCP mini-HOWTO,
> referenced by Brandon and I am still not able to connect as of this morning.  I
> am at work, so I cannot try some other ideas.


Yes, the mini-HOWTO isn't much help. An actual config file that I can
modify is what I'm looking for. Don't be stingy people, post those
configs!

 
> I think it is an AT&T problem at this point.  For example, my cable 'modem' no
> longer flashed amber as of this morning, but the network traffic light was not
> flashing green.  Previously, it flashed all of the time, which (I believe)
> indicates network traffic.  Since it was not flashing this morning, I can only
> believe that my part of the network was not running yet.


Well, I wouldn't doubt that it's AT&T, but I have no way of confirming
that -- I've been using a static config for quite a while, so setting
up DHCP is a new adventure -- and the docs really suck. I've also heard
that @Home doesn't play well with Linux, so I'm wondering if that's
the problem, or if they're still down, or if I haven't set everything
up right.

 
> Another reason I think it is AT&T at this point is that I have tried several
> times this morning to connect from Yahoo email client to my new email account
> at mail server mail.attbi.com.  This does not work either.  Yahoo reports that
> the connection to mail.attbi.com died unexpectedly.  This conflicts with other
> observations / abilities to retrieve email.


I've tried that too -- no luck. So much for getting the email with
instructions. I can sign in on their main site, but the links to
manually configuring the DHCP are broken or only accessible to people
on AT&T. (Nice support, huh?)

 
> I do have other friends whose accounts (including email) are working.  They are
> all on various versions of Windoze.  I tried to connect my wife's NT machine
> and that does not work, either.
> 
> When I get a working configuration, I will post it.  Also, if you're still on
> Slackware, maybe check alt.os.linux.slackware.


Some of my machines, but my firewall is a Debian box. Thanks for the
response, though.

Take care,

Zonker

> --- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jbrockmeier at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>I'm still having trouble getting online (with @HOME) and I don't
>>know if it's me or them -- could someone POST A WORKING CONFIG FOR
>>THE LOVE OF GOD.
>>
>>Sorry for "shouting" but several people have said "gee, it's working
>>now" but completely ignored requests for their configs. I'd really
>>like to get off the damn modem.
>>
>>Zonker
>>
> 
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