"David A. Bandel" wrote: > Keith Antoine wrote: > > > Can a telco block linux access on cable ?? I cannot get out using Suse > > but I was online earlier today, a friens als has tried in suse and > > mandrake > > and cannot get out We can both get out on windows.
I assume you're using dhcp. Does it complain? Does ifconfig show anything reasonable? > If they're using DHCP and have "Windoze-ized" it, you may never be able > to connect with anything except Windoze. Only they can tell you if > they've deliberately fsck'd you. In which case, they'll need to give > you a static IP. Anyone have any details on what Windoze-ized dhcp looks like? The first time I heard about this was just today, also. I expect there will be hacks to get this to work again, here's an easy one that may work: 1) Hook up to your ISP using Windows. Look at the IP assigned (ipconfig from the command line for NT and 2k - 95/98 has something similar but slightly different). 2) Hook up to your ISP using Linux. Use ifconfig to tell Linux to use the same IP. Note, this is most likely to work if you can just pull the ethernet cable out of Win and plug it into Linux - no chance for Win to release the IP or the ISP to notice it is down. If you're dual booting, pull the cable before you shut down Win. Perhaps you can look at lease times (/all to ipconfig) to see how much time you have. I assume this isn't a dial-up connection - that's unlikely to be dhcp. Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
