[NCLUG] Linux/Att cable modem....

[Dave Treece]

I shouldn't reply to this but....

If you had asked, I could have told you that an email/registration was done,
but no replies had come from the other side. But since this "suddenly"
became a problem, we thought it might be better in the long run to at least
attempt to conform to their standard.

Not everyone calls out for help without investigating the possibilities. You
should know the level of service help with an ISP (whatever) of this sort
that have their specific standards and are pretty much hands off if you
don't use the standard equipment. We he told the cable guy that his computer
was used both at home and at work the installer would no longer touch his
computer and finish the setup.

I asked a simple question "has anybody here done this...." and answers to
that affect are extremely helpful. Telling us to "re-read" our email does
nothing.

I apologize for the rant, but, this it's responses such as this that keep me
from interacting on lists such as this more often.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Dwyer" <mdwyer at sixthdimension.com>
To: <nclug at nclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Linux/Att cable modem....


> > I think AT&T is changing their policy.  I've had @Home for about 6
months and
> > had always had the same IP address.  Then about a week ago I got a
letter
> > saying to make sure I'm running DHCP, and gave me instructions on how to
make
> > windows run DHCP (which I happily ignored).  Anyway, just the other day
my IP
> > address changed, so if you start having network problems, that may be
the
> > case.  dhcpcd is easy to run.  With @home they want you to tell them
your
> > hostname (that they gave you).  So you should run:
>
> You people need to read your E-mail...
>
> Go back and read it, go visit the site they mentioned, and register
> yourself
> as one of the non-DHCP users.  Then, they send you a message warning you
> of
> future addressing changes, and let you keep your semi-static IP.
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