thanks Craig and others for the help.  Actually my freind called Cox this
morning and must have got a linux head on the phone because he just gave
hime over the phone what IP he'll be assigned and I just hardcoded it
in.  All good now.

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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Craig White wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of John
>> Kloian III
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 8:51 PM
>> To: PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> Subject: cox & dhcp
>>
>>
>> Has anyone gotten linux and cox working using their dhcp server?  I have
>> tried dhclient and dhcpcd and they both just time out.  I thought maybe if
>> I used thier dhcp server name it might help.  Do I need to use the
>> computer's cox hostname (cx-......) in the command line?  These may sound
>> like assinine questions, but I'm trying to help a friend over the phone
>> who uses the service and he doesn't have a whole lot of information to
>> help me out with.
>>
>----
>not at all assinine questions...it can be pretty tough.
>
>Yes, you MUST use the cx99999-x hostname in the command line as in....
>
>dhcpcd -h cx999999-x
>
>I should add that if you have a pc (or mac) and can hook it up to cox, and
>then get the ip address, subnet mask and router/gateway address from dhcp,
>you can set it up as fixed on you linux flavor and forget about the dynamic
>client setup altogether.
>
>Craig
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