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heyas! RE: Highway1.



I run LINUX at home with Highway1. They installed the connection with my
WIndows95 booted. Then I copied the IP addresses into my LINUX
configuration.

I run IP masquarade and have an internal private network that the
outside world never see's. It's worked great excepth when they redid the
IP addresses. The one year lease on my IP address got cut off. They now
give out one month leases. I had to reboot Windows95 to get a new IP
address then transfer that ot LINUX. I have a DHCP client, dhcpc-0.6,
which needs compiling and testing that might solve the problem.

When ever I have a problem first I reboot Windows 95 to check the
connection and then I call them. So far my modem has lost training twice
and they changed the IP address once.

Has anybody already tested a DHCP client program?

Steve Ludlum   sludlum at conley.com   stevel at stevel.ne.highway1.com


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> Here are some facts. I use Highway1, but I have not had my Linux system up on
> it yet.
> 
> Currently, the service provides a single ip address to the host computer. It
> is served via dhcp. There is no special software that is loaded into a system
> by the Highway1 installers. All your system needs is a DHCP client. The MAC
> address on your ethernet card is checked by the dhcp server, so the ip address
> request must be done on the system that contains the ehternet card with the
> correct MAC address. (BTW: The cable modem also has an IP address).
> 
> Although I have not tried it, others have used one system to acquire the ip
> address, then have brought up linux with that ip address. The reason that my
> Alpha Linux system has languished a bit is that it did not have a monitor. I
> just bought one this weekend.
> --
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> Jerry Feldman            Digital Unix Development Environment
> Digital Equipment Corp.  (work)gaf at zk3.dec.com (home)gaf at highway1.com
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>




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