trouble connecting to @home cable modem

[Digital Wokan]

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
> Developer, SuSE Labs
> peterb@suse.com
> http://www.suse.com/~peterb
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