trouble connecting to @home cable modem

[Tim Cutler]

Mine is truly 24.1.248.0;  I have my linux box online per previous message.

Digital Wokan wrote:

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