cox & dhcp

[Craig White]

> -----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.
>
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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