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

[Grant Johnson]

2 options:
1) Use a wintel box to find out the IP information and type it in.(what 
I did)
2) Set up DHCP with the -h option to tell it the hostname when you ask 
for an address (I've heard it works)

Warren wrote:

>I'm running into a few problems setting up a Linux box on a cable modem.
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>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?
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>Is the hostname case-sensitive?
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>Some sources on the 'net talk about prefixing the hostname with an
>additional "c", but this doesn't seem to do it.
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>I know this has been discussed before, but let's pretend I wasn't paying
>attention.  :)
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