dhcp help requested

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi, Scott.  In my area, Comcast uses client identifier instead of the MAC
address of the network card to get an IP.  Comcast tech support calls it
"your computer name."  This isn't the host name of your system, it's a
string sent by your DHCP client.  It's been a long time since I used
them, so I'm not completely sure, but I don't think pump would let me
send the string.  Dhclient and dhcpcd did work for me.

Good luck and hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:39:53AM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> 	Hello Speakup friends,
> 
> Well I'm temporarly using my work E-mail address until I get my cable 
> connection working. Therefore I have a question regarding the Debian Potato 
> installation. I'm using the disks off the ftp site and from what I can tell 
> I get to the point where I'm to configure the network, but I'm having some 
> problems. I have a cable connection whcih uses dhcp and from what the cable 
> company tellss me they don't support anything but windows, but well gee 
> does this surprise anyone, however, there are folks using Linux with their 
> service. This leads me to believe their dhcp implementation is normal so 
> all should work.
> I have a 3com card its an older isa 10mbps model that uses the 503 driver. 
> When the module was installed there were no errors and if you type ifconfig 
> it gives me some basic info about the card like the irq and so on. Of 
> course it does not provide any ip or other info as one hasn't been assigned 
> to it. So I let the installer run pump to obtain the ip address and so on 
> automatically and it returns a message after about 20 seconds or so stating 
> the configuration failed. I can't get any useful information as to why it 
> failed. I tried running pump by hand to see if anything of value would come 
> from it and yet nothing. Does anyone have any suggestions I might try? It 
> appears as far as I can determine that the cable connection is working or 
> so all the lights on the cable modem would indicate this and the network 
> card worked fine previously in this box when I had dsl.
> 
> tia
> Scott
> 
> 
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