RedHat 8.0 and Cox as Internet Provider

Cox uses DHCP, only hitch is they lock on the first MAC address that the modem
sees for dishing out the ip address to. Try a hard reset of the Cable Modem.
If that doesn't work, you might need to still feed a hostname to get Cox to work.

> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
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> as COX uses dhcp
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> On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 17:03, George Gambill wrote:
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>>Loaded RH 8.0 on a friends (boss's son) machine. Used KDE instead of the
>>default GNOME. Linux is the only OS. The friend (Rob) took the machine
>>home and is unable to connect to his internet provider, COX. Haven't talked
>>to Rob, only his father.
>>
>>Does anyone have suggestions as to where to start looking before I call him?