Connecting to Comcast

[Jerry Feldman]

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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:40:42 -0400
pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> 
> 
> The question was mostly rhetorical.  I was thinking of the poor slob 
> with a Windows box who doesn't know this stuff.  Of course, that poor 
> slob would probably have paid the $100 "professional" installation 
> fee, rather than just getting suckered out $50 for the "basic" 
> installation  :)
> 
> ># assumes eth0 is your external nic
> ># 10.1.2.3 is arbitrary
> >ifconfig eth0 10.1.2.3
> >
> >route add 192.168.100.1 eth0
> 
> Yeah, I tried that, didn't work.
> 
> >dhclient eth0  # maybe?
> 
> I'll try that tonight.  I was using pump, and Derek reminded me that 
> pump is sometimes, often times, broken :)
When you boot and have no upline DHCP server, the cable modem supplies a
local address. With a Windoz box, you just set the IP address to
automatic. 


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