hi Jason:
I have my cable modem hooked up to a RH6 box. I tried the DHCP
route and experienced about the same thing. I changed back to the static IP
and everything improved a tremendous amount. I went through the online
documentation and it mentioned using static IPs for 'UNIX or special
configurations'. I set my Windows machine (I have two cable modem IP
addresses on my little network) to use DHCP and it has always retained the
lease on the original IP address. (for 6 months so far)
If you disconnect your PC from the network (Turn it off, etc) for more than
7 days, you would probably lose your static address. If you don't plan on
doing that, it should always be able to use that IP address. I just think
DHCP is easier for your ISP to manage, so they 'strongly suggest' you use
that method.
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when i use a cable modem with RH 6.0 and kernel 2.2.5 my network activity
stalls constantly and gets thruput (when it works) less than 1kBps.
i get the same problem with it setup as a dhcp client (the correct protocol
according to my isp) as i do with it as a static ip setup. it works fine on
the
same hardware on RH5.2 (kernel 2.0.26) and windoze 98, so i don't think it's
bad hardware. and at the same time it's stalling, i can get great thruput on
my
other machine running RH5.2, so i don't think it's just bad timing. they are
connected thru the same hub. the nic is a realtek NE2000 pci running the
ne2k-pci module.
is there a known problem with RH6 or the 2.2 kernel with this card? i
couldn't
find anything about it in how-to's and such.
TIA
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