[NCLUG] dhcp and @home

[Mark C. Smith]

I'm using dhcpcd and it works fine.  The trick is to use the 
-h option (I'm pretty sure that's it) and include your hostname
after that.  They should have given you some sort of hostname
when you signed up.  


Mark







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On Mar 16, 2001, J. Paul Reed wrote the following with Subject "Re: [NCLUG]...:

->On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Mike Loseke wrote:
->
->>  Any of you @home cable modem users have any issues with getting DHCP to
->>  work? I got it installed yesterday and could never even get a reply from
->>  my dhcp requests, although I could see plenty of broadcasts on the
->>  network from stations other than myself. I'm connecting a machine
->>  directly to the modem over cat-5. Their tech support wasn't very useful
->>  as they tried updating their dhcp database 3 times then gave up and said
->>  I couldn't talk to tier 2 support anymore because I only had the basic
->>  installation. :-P
->
->What dhcp grabbing proggie are you using?
->
->Later,
->Paul
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