dhcp help requested

[Scott Howell]

Ay Kenny, Adelphia apparently uses the mac address of the cable modem. I 
need to check to be sure they got that and if this is the case I then 
probably should make sure I know what is to be transmitted if anything. 
Thanks for the tip.

Scott


At 09:26 AM 9/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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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