Switching to MediaOne

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

It could be time to update your linux distro.  May I suggest SuSE.

Anthony

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Rich Braun wrote:

> Derek Martin wrote:
> > Most probably, yes.  MediaOne hands out IP addresses only to known MAC
> > addresses, AFAIK.  At least they did when I got my CM.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.  I also got a couple of other private replies.
> My question remains this:  assuming I don't have DHCP-client working
> on the old Linux box, will this work?  Will the cable-modem recognize
> my Linux PC even if it hasn't requested a DHCP lease?
> 
> Secondary question: if MediaOne renumbers my IP address in the future,
> is there any way (short of calling them, or getting some form of DHCP
> client up and running with the hard-wired MAC address) to find out
> what the new address is?
> 
> All this is a moot point if it turns out to be trivial to get DHCP client
> running on my installation.  But it's from a company which, so far as I
> know, went out of the Linux distribution business a long time ago (WGS,
> or something like that).  Experience has taught me that the libc and
> everything else is just plain too old to do much with.  I have an Adaptec
> 2930 SCSI adapter which I've given up trying to install on this box.
> 
> -rich
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