[H-GEN] optus at home cable setup troubles

[Johann Kwiatkowski]

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Hi All,
        thanks for all your comments, I installed dhclient, and bingo, 
worked first go :)

cheers

Johann


Sandra Milne wrote:

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>On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:32:37PM +1000, Johann Kwiatkowski wrote:
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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,
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>We use dhcp-client on our optus @ home box, which runs debian 3.0. You
>configure your dhcp-client.conf (that is prolly not the right file but I
>set it up ages ago and haven't needed to change it) with the connection
>name that Optus gave you. something like C00445583 (I pulled that out of
>my head)
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>If you'd like a working conf file, email me off list and I'll send you
>mine (slightly modified of course).
>
>Sandra.
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