Cable modem & DHCP (one minor problem)

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I have found a similar thing. I can't point you to a reference, but 
apparently, mediaone's dhcp is a bit non-standard. 
I found that once it builds its lease database, in /var/state/dhcp, it should 
run reliably. 


On 7 Apr 2000, at 13:16, Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:

> 
> hey folks,
> 
> Finally! my cable modem has been installed.  Here's a quick synopsis of
> my setup:
> 
> 	+ 3COM cable modem
> 	+ SUN Sparc20 running RedHat 6.1 (configured as firewall)
> 	+ 2 Pentium boxes behind the firewall as happy as can be
> 
> When MediaOne came out, we configured using a Win95 machine.  Once that
> worked, I snagged the hardware address for the NIC and used it on the
> Sparc20's 2nd interface:
> 
> 	ifconfig eth1 hw ether 11:22:33:44:55:66
> 
> The original Win95 machine is now off the network and powered off!
> 
> Here's the problem: DHCP acquisition fails 4 out of 5 times.
> I have to bring up the interface several times before the IP is
> finally received,
> 
> 	ifup eth1
> 
> I have also tried using `pump -i eth1` directly from the command line,
> but get the same results.  The windows system is also very slow at
> acquiring the IP, although I can't tell if it's just more leniant on the
> timeouts.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> - Christoph
> 
> 
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