On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Andre Pang wrote: > 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
The only additional thing I had to do was power cycle the cable modem. One web reference claimed a cable modem reset is required when the MAC address changes - it looks like it did in my case. (Done about two weeks ago). HTH. Luke. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
