[H-GEN] optus at home cable setup troubles

[Michael Anthon]

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>             I'm trying to set up a linux box for optus at home cable 
> connection, using a stock redhat 7.3 box. As far as I am aware from 
> reading several websites, all that I need to do is set the interface 
> (eth1 in this case) to dhcp at boot up. This is not working for me. I've 
> also tried ifdown eth1 follwoed by /sbin/dhcpcd -d eth1 at the command 
> line, but it just times out. the connection was also tested initially 
> with a windows box and worked and the modem was reset when changing to 
> the linux box. I've also tried switching cables. It seems something 
> simple is missing, but I don't know what. Any help would be appreciated,

I have a debian (powerpc) box hooked up to optus cable.  During the initial
configuration I had a similar problem in that no matter what I did I
couldn't get a lease.  Comparing notes with someone else who had the same
setup working I discovered the only difference seemed to be that he was
using dhclient (the ISC one) while I was using pump.  I uninstalled pump and
isntalled dhclient and it all started working..... go figure.

Cheers
Michael

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