network problems

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  My ISP uses the MAC address of the network card connected to the
cable modem to make sure I'm an authorized user.  I don't know how your
ISP does things, but that might be your problem.
When I used Comcast, they required the DHCP client to send a
identification string before you could get a lease.  They called your
computer name.  If I remember right, I told dhclient to send it as the
"client identifyer".

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 03:22:23PM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote:
> Well, after setting the network card in the machine that has Debian 3.0 R 2 on it, I went and installed the module for my card.
> Whenever I run ifconfig, I get no errors at all, but I can not connect to any websites via lynx or anything else. I set the module
> originally for a static ip, but soon after I realized this was a mistake I went and changed the line in my /etc/network/interfaces
> file so that it reads:
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> And I completely stript away the address line after that. What could I be doing wrong here? Everything looks good on the hardware
> side of things and everything says it's checking out okay on the ifconfig screen. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running the
> tulip.c module that came with my Linksys network card.
> Jes
> 
> 
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