Connecting to Comcast
Jerry Feldman
gaf at blu.org
Tue Sep 23 14:04:48 EDT 2003
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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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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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