@Home and DHCP
Eric Rossiter
rossiter at discoverynet.com
Wed Dec 19 20:17:47 CST 2001
Brian Densmore wrote:
>
> Seasons Greetings all,
>
> Could someone tell me again how they did it?
Hello fellow tux-ites,
To my knowledge Comcast at Home authenticates by machine name. I was told
there are no static IP's, however, they must have machine names mapped
to IP's somewhere, because I have always gotten the same IP, no matter
what, Win or Lin, in over a year.
So, that said, this is how I make it work. Set the hostname to whatever
Comcast gave you, i.e., aa######-a (cb987654-a, for example.) I don't
set any other parameters, DNS, etc. I do enable DHCP for eth0.
You need to hack /sbin/ifup to make this work also.
In RH 6.x, you need to change the following line in /sbin/ifup
if /sbin/pump -i $DEVICE; then
Change to:
if /sbin/pump -i $DEVICE -h aa######-a; then
Where: aa######-a = your hostname (cb987654-a, for example.)
/sbin/ifup changed alot in RH 7.x and I haven't figured out the hack for
that yet. In 7.x eth0 init fails @ boot up, but after logging in I
issue "/sbin/pump -h aa######-a -i eth0" and I authenticate to @Home
fine, and get the same IP every time. If anyone figures out the hack
for /sbin/ifup in RH 7.x, PLEASE let me know, as logging into root and
using pump every time I boot into Linux gets old.
HTH & TIA,
Eric
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