[H-GEN] DHCP and Telstra

[Robert Brockway]

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On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Paul Gearon wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone out there running Bigpond cable?
>
> Yesterday Telstra took the service down due to "problems with Motorola
> cable modems logging in".  Not sure why as I have a Motorola modem, and
> I've always been fine.
>
> When they came back up I've discovered that at least one of my Linux boxes
> can no longer obtain an address by DHCP.  After much frustration I used
> the sledgehammer approach, and got an address with a Windows 98 box, and
> then configured the Linux box to use that IP address permanently.

When helping a friend with BigPond Cable & Linux I had to tell the windows
box that had formerly been on the link to explicely release the IP before
the Linux box could get one.  They were authenticating/locking on the MAC
address I believe.  When we told it to release it cleared the MAC address
lock.  The Linux box has never had to release before we changed the cable
to another box however.

This is not exactly like your situation but try an explicit release under
Win98 then bring the Linux box in.  This may or may not help but is worth
a shot imho.

Cheers,
	-Rob

-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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