[olug] DHCP

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Is anyone using DHCP with @home?

Yep

> Im trying to reconfigure my network to use DHCP (see my earlier
> message about @home's new policy). It grabs a IP through DHCP on
> bootup (using the dhclient program), but I cannot hit any outside
> machines (tried pinging my domain, trying lynx'ing to a common
> website, no luck).
>
> Any ideas folks?

Well...

1) Check your ip - make sure it's actually one you can use :)
2) ping your gateway

If those two check out there's some other problem.

It's possible that your DHCP setup isn't correct.  Cox's DHCP servers
*require* that you send the correct hostname - that's the cx??????-? part
of your fqdn when you do a reverse DNS on your IP number.

If it helps, this is the dhclient config I've been using for nearly a
year:

supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
supersede domain-name "brutsche.com omhan1.ne.home.com";

interface "eth1" {
        send host-name "cx340599-a";
        script "/etc/dhclient.script";
}

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

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