[H-GEN] optus at home cable setup troubles

[Snowy Angelique Maslov aka 'Snowpony']

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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Michael Anthon wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:43:35 +1000
> From: Michael Anthon <michael at anthon.net>
> Reply-To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] optus at home cable setup troubles
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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.

One thing I would add; just power-cycling the modem won't work.  You need to
leave it off for a few minutes and then turn it back on so it actually does a
proper reset of itself and removes any cached arp entries it might have.

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