[olug] New COX managed network bad for Linux

[Joe Mastandrea]

I observed a Cox employee attempting to move a cox demo machine at a 
computer store from home.com to cox.net

I asked about the advanced instructions at support.cox.net, which he 
agreed with.  When I mentioned that the dhcp client had to send the 
cx######, he said that the cx######'s won't be needed on cox.net

Anticipating the learning curve,
Joe



>>For example, it won't provide the DHCP server with the hostname of
>>your client machine, no matter what the man page says.
>>
>
>Of course it does.  My cable modem wouldn't work if it didn't (and I
>hadn't manually set the IP number :)!  Like every other DHCP client I've
>looked at on Linux/*BSD, it doesn't do it by default.  You just need to
>set the host name it'll send in the config file.
>
>Here's a snippet from my dhclient.conf:
>
>interface "eth1" {
>        send host-name "cx340599-a";
>        script "/etc/dhclient.script";
>}
>
>
>
>Phil
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