more network problems

Bear in SFO BearSFO at PacBell.NET
Fri Oct 11 01:07:10 EDT 2002


I never noticed there was such a sentence.  I gave my box a name and my 
router nor my provider recognize it so I use its IP address if I need to 
remote to it...

At 04:38 PM 10/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>If you find a rc.firewall script, you or somebody would have to have put
>it there.  Yes, you could delete it, but this isn't your problem because
>the script isn't run until your network is up.  By the way, when you run
>netconfig and choose DHCP, it asks for a hostname and says that some
>providers require it.  Leave it blank unless you are 100% sure you need
>it.  I didn't need it with Road Runner, but reportedly, some providers
>require it.  Maybe your router requires a hostname or you've set it to
>require one.  In any case, like I said, try a direct connection to your
>cable modem first.
>
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