Corvin,
put dhcpcd -h 'hostname' in /etc/init.d/boot.local
an you should have it at boot. Obviously replace
'hostname' to your @home given hostname without the quotes.
Regards,
Keith B.
Corvin Russell
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:59:40AM -0400, Paul Babiak wrote:
Here are a couple more. And btw, Rogers does NOT used fixed IP's, at least in my area (Toronto). My IP has only changed once in the past year, but their setup does say to use DHCP.
Please let us know how you make out, I'm about to do the same thing, as soon as I decide how I'm gonna jump in to Linux - dual boot machine (with W98SE), new hard drive or new box.
Good luck.
http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html
http://www.dysan.net/linux/howto/@home-cable-linux-connection-HOWTO.html #s2
Thanks to everyone who answered.
With the help of the last HOWTO, I finally managed to fix it so that
# dhcpcd -h cr616489-b &
now brings up a connection.
If you set things up with Yast/Yast2 you will get a line in /etc/hosts that looks like this:
127.0.0.2 cr616489-b.etob1.on.wave.home.com cr616489-b
I had to manually change it to this
24.102.73.230 cr616489-b.etob1.on.wave.home.com cr616489-b
before dhcpcd would work. Everytime you diddle with the hostnames in YaST, it will rewrite this line.
Now, on SuSE's website there is something about how to adjust the /etc/init.d/dhclient script for fixed ips, however, that help file seems to be out of date as nothing corresponds to it in the script I looked at. With the result that the dhcp connection does not come up on boot and
# rcdhclient start eth0
does not bring it ip either. I have to type
# dhcpcd -h hostname &
Any tips for changing this script? Thanks.
Corvin
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