[CLUE-Tech] Easiest DHCP

[Chris]

With the new ATTBI network you do not need the hostname any longer.

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From: "Jeremiah Stanley" <miah at miah.org>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Easiest DHCP


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> > I'm not too new to linux...I've been messing around with it for awhile
> > but I still don't really know very much about it.  I've installed a lot
> > of different distributions but I've been stuck with Mandrake for awhile
> > now but the internet doesn't work.  I have that AT&T Cable Modem...it
> > used to be the @home service but I think they may have changed it now.
> > Before, the static IP address used to work when put it in manually with
> > the other distributions, but it doesn't work now with any of them
> > (distributions). So, my question is, which distribution has the easiest
> > DHCP configuration if they're not all the same?...I've never configured
> > it before but now I guess I have to if I want to use the internet
> > without crashing (I'm stuck on my windows partition for surfing, email,
> > and the sort). Or probably a better question is which DHCP configuration
> > distibution has actual DHCP that work...I've tried it with my Mandrake
> > but keeps doing some kind of error as if it can't find an IP address at
> > all.  Any help in plain english is wonderful.  Thanks a lot.  (I've
> > already called AT&T, but they don't have support for Linux....bummer!)
>
> Both the @Home and AT&T cable internet services require that you pass a
> hostname attribute to their DHCP server and then it will give you all the
> information that you need to get packets flowing.
>
> I have had absolutely no luck with pump on RH 7.1 in getting this to work
> but the other program you can use is dhcpd and it works flawlessly for me.
> Granted my uptime looks like this:
>
>   3:04pm  up 135 days,  4:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
> So I don't really reboot that often. But the four times I've done it since
> I moved in here has worked well!
>
> I had to hack the bash script that reads the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files but this was only in RH
> 7.1 RH7.2 thay made dhcpd the default and pump the secondary. You just
> have to trick RH 7.1's scripts into thinking that pump doesn't exist and
> it will bounce the command and the args for it to dhcpd.
>
> This is what the config looks like for the NIC I have plugged into the
> cheesy router (it doesn't route packets, it is a bridge-like device) that
> I got from AT&T/@Home when I signed up:
>
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=yes
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=C1000000-A
> PEERDNS=no
>
> With the proper hostname changed to protect the innocent (me). I also have
> some fancy iptables setup that grabs my IP and network settings from
> /sbin/ifconfig to configure NAT and firewalling for my internal network
> which Comcast is starting to crack down on this sort of setup
> (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/24/1957236&mode=thread) so I'll
> most likely have to go back to using Qwaste for DSL really soon (and just
> tell them that I am a Mac user to avoid MSN).
>
> Hope this helps, let us/me know if we can tell you anything else that
> would be helpful!
>
> JStanley
> - --
> Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips
over,
> pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.  - Matt Groening
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