[CLUE-Tech] Linux on an @Home Cable Modem

[Jeremy Huber]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren" <warren at guano.org>
To: "CLUE-Tech Mailing List" <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:53 AM
Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Linux on an @Home Cable Modem


> I'm running into a few problems setting up a Linux box on a cable modem.
>
> Besides configuring the internet-facing ethernet card for DHCP, setting
> the hostname to the name supplied by @Home, and setting the domain to
> "aurora1.co.home.com", what am I forgetting?
>
> Is the hostname case-sensitive?
>
> Some sources on the 'net talk about prefixing the hostname with an
> additional "c", but this doesn't seem to do it.
>
> I know this has been discussed before, but let's pretend I wasn't paying
> attention.  :)

All I had to do was make sure pump/dhcpcd was sending the hostname..

dhcpcd -h <hostname>.  Just the first part is needed, not the
denver1.co.etc...