Maybe it's time to contact your cable provider and ask them how you should be set up. I'm sure that in a civilised place like Sveria, there should be inga probleme with asking support for linux configs.
I sympathise with the confusion - it's probably apparent that I suffer from the same symptoms. lycka till Brian On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 19:28, Bo Ros�n wrote: > tor 2002-01-24 klockan 08.16 skrev Brian Parish: > > > I don't use cable access (i wish!) but from what I have read (on this > > I went from a 14.4 modem (my 56k one got toasted) to cable a couple of > years ago. It was a sweet. > > > > If everything works with this hostname set and you are in fact using > > DHCP to get your address, you could look at /etc/sysconfig/network > > In here is a line (probably) which reads DHCP_HOSTNAME=xyz > > It's all there. > I wonder if this is the problem. Do I have this backwards, I call my > system delirium, that is localhost = delirium and this name is what > shows up for DHCP_HOSTNAME. Do both my loopback and eth0 get the same > name? So, when I replace localhost in /etc/hosts for delirium there is a > conflict that gets resolved by resetting that entry? > > Network stuff always confuses me. > > Thanks, > Bo > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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