At 02:00 PM 12/12/98 -0500, eqc wrote: >First of all, you need to find out how your cable provider does the >connection. I've done a cable modem setup that needed the ethernet >interface set to the IP 10.0.0.1/8 and used a dialup for the outbound >traffic (givin dynamically). > >Does your cable use a modem in addition to the cable modem? No. >Does your provider use DHCP? Yes. >Might you have a static addresss? No. > >If the answers end up being no, yes, no, then you are back to >troubleshooting dhcp. I'm sorry but i'm not familiar with the linux dhcp >client. :) thanks anyway :) Someone else gave me the tip that my provider may be limiting my use only to the ethernet adapter they installed on. I'm gonna follow this lead and swap the nics in my two PCs. > > -Aram > >At 12:27 PM 12/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >>All, >> >>(I posted this last night but didn't see it come across the list. Sorry >>for any dupes.) >> >>I've just got a new cable modem installed (which currently works fine on my >>Win95 box) and I am trying to set it up on my Linux box. >> >>Currently, I have a successful simple masq configuration with one Linux >>box as a masq server using its 56k modem and my other two machines (one >>Win95, one Linux) going through that to get to the internet. My goal is to >>replace the regular modem with the cablemodem. >> >>Before I add a second nic to my masq Linux box, I'm simply trying to get it >>that box to connect through the cable modem on eth0 and it is not working. >> >>I've reconfigured eth0 to use dhcp (through Redhat's control panel) and >>when I run dhcpcd I get no ip and no connection. >> >>Here's how it goes: >> >>+ I run dhcpdc >>+ I watch ifconfig and see eth0 configured with an ip of 0.0.0.0, etc. >> (I expect that this is normal while it looks for a DHCP server and >> waits for an IP to be allocated.) >>+ after 30 seconds or I get the following message on stdout: >> >> eth0: Setting promiscuous mode >> >> and it says the following in the log file: >> >> dhcpd[pid]: no DHCPOFFER messages >> >>+ run ifconfig and there's no longer has an entry for eth0 >> >>I've also tried rebooting Linux to see if the startup will do any better. >>Same behavior. >> >>The cablemodem-mini-howto says it should be this simple. Am I missing >>something? I have also tried starting up a DHCP server of my own on this >>machine and still no satisfaction. >> >>Am I missing a step? Any advice? >> >>thanks. >> >> --Scott >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For daily digest info, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For daily digest info, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For daily digest info, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
