It depends on the size of the subnet they've placed you on. Mine is
255.255.254.000.
Pete Buechler wrote:
>
> I always configure my system statically. I have seen special articles
> on getting DHCP to work with Cox, apparently it is non-standard in some
> way (?).
>
> BTW, that network mask looks odd to me:
>
> 24.1.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0
>
> Most commonly it would be 255.255.255.0, but Cox told me that mine
> would be 255.255.255.128, and that works fine. Try setting it to
> 255.255.255.128.
>
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> Pete Buechler
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