(FWD)linux, cable modem, and RCN

[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott Ehrlich)]

I am also a Waltham RCN user (using OpenBSD).  I have one of the newer
3COM DOCSIS-compliant cable-modems.  If you change NICs for any reason,
you need to power cycle the modem to have RCN acknowledge the new MAC
address and reassign a DHCP IP address.

Hope that helps.

Scott

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Evan Sarmiento wrote:

> It's easy Michael. Infact, I have RCN cable.
> Download dhclient.
> Once the cable modem is connected to your nic, type dhclient eth0.
> Basically, that tool just gets you an ip address from RCN.
> 
> In Debian, dhclient was automatically put into /etc/init.d, I just edited
> the configuration so it only sent a dhcp offer on eth0.
> 
> Hope this helped at all.
> 
> - Evan S. | http://www.sekt7.org
> 
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> > Got this on a bounce. Michael is not on the discussion list. I know we have 
> > a few RCN cable people on the list.
> > 
> > ------------------------
> > 
> > > From: "Michael Dinsmore" <michael at backpacker.com>
> > > To: discuss at blu.org
> > > X-Originating-IP: [209.27.135.2]
> > > Subject: linux, cable modem, and RCN
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > >   I was reviwing content on your site to see any local information about conf
> > > iguring your eth0 --  DHCP connection with RCN's cable modem.  I figured it w
> > > ould be on your site.  For some reason, its not on the Linux HOW-TO for cable
> > >  modems and it seems like they have every other cable company listed.
> > >    Installing Linux is easy (been getting better and better through the years
> > > ) and normally setting up network settings isn't too tough -- but this stumps
> > >  me!
> > -- 
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
> > http://www.blu.org
> > 
> > 
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