On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:14:45PM +1000, Alan Vink wrote: > We have a home/office user running Optus Cable. The problem is that we > cannot get the Cable service to work under Linux.... > > In the past I had a home connection running Optus Cable and it was quite > easliy achieved with 'dhcpcd' and in one case (don't know why) I was able to > jump on the network unauthenticated for over a year by just using dhcp and > no host/client id information supplied.
The current situation is this: Now, Optus pick up an IP address by the MAC address of your network card. Change your network card and you'll get a different IP address. You don't need to send the hostname anymore when you send a DHCP request (the hostname being the co3000xxx-a thing). Now, however, you are _required_ to use DHCP to jump on the network; assigning yourself a static IP doesn't work. You might also want to subscribe yourself to the athome-linux egroup; search for athome-linux on www.yahoogroups.com -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
