On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 @ 5:01 PM, rmyster wrote:
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 15:48, Greg Wallace wrote:
My router just went out and I'm trying to set up my Linux box to connect directly through my cable modem. Under DNS and Hostname, there is a box at the bottom that says --
Update Name Servers and Search List Via DHCP
That's what I want, but the box is grayed out. I seem to recall that something has to be shut down before that can be changed. I went to the Runlevel Editor and save Network, so I thought shutting that down would be the ticket. Well, when I select it, a pop-up came up saying it would also have to shut down about 20 other services. I'm hoping that's not what I have to do to change this networking over to DHCP. .....
Some cable modems/service providers tie the IP address to the MAC address so the cable modem has to power down completely(unplug power supply) and reboot before the changed hardware will be allowed a new IP. Otherwise, the cable
modem sees the new MAC address as a request for a 2nd IP address and denies
the connection.
But I can't even set Linux up to accept an IP address from the ISP. It's set up pointing to the router and the box I need to check to tell it to go to the modem directly is greyed out. If I could get that set and I still couldn't get a connection, then that would be when I would need to worry about having to power down the modem, right? I don't think power down the modem is going to open up that box under "Update Name Servers..." under "DNS and Host Name" in YAST, is it? Greg Wallace