I just got back from a friend's where I set up a Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 workstation system on ATT@home several months ago (a case of ``friends don't let friends use Windows'' :-). It was a piece of cake to make the transition. I reconfigured the NIC from the static IP address to dhcp, and it Just Worked(tm). The AT&T dhcp implementation appears to be standard, and doesn't require the ``-h hostname'' I've seen referenced for Linux configuration on some cable networks.
The IP address assigned doesn't have proper reverse DNS yet, and I'm not sure whether it will change if her machine's restarted. Other than that, I just changed the DNS for her domain to point to the new IP address, and her e-mail backlog caught up immediately. We are using the ``obsolete'' uucp protocol over TCP to send and receive e- mail from her system where one of our machines here is the primary MX forwarder for her domain. I did test to see if AT&T is blocking port 25 in or out, and it's not -- yet. FWIW, AT&T sent out a notice with the basic information for unsupported operating systems. This said to use dhcp, and gave the IP addresses for e- mail and news servers. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ What's this script do? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep Hint for the answer: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're in a sleeping bag, camping out. (Contributed by Frans van der Zande.) _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
