Carl,
I am rather non-plussed that the dhcp program would be giving you
such a hasssle.
I got mine to work right from the first minute.

I simply added the following line in rc.sysinit (long after the other 
partitions were mounted):

# dhcp networking setup
	/sbin/dhcpcd -h ${HOSTNAME}

that was it. I also issued a command on the CLI to insure my
hostname was correct before I tried this:
hostname <my hostname here without the domain).

I have tried this on 4 different boxes using MDK or redhat or
even Suse. (this last required I hunt down the system init script).

so far, it works great on a Pentium 225 Mhz box with 2 nics (I use it as
an IP?NAT firewall/router box).

try this on the command line.
hostname <your assigned DNS name>
dhcpcd -h ${HOSTNAME}
it should work.

Technomage Hawke

On Tue, 06 November 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:

> 
> I *still* can't get ifup to work with my Cox@HOME. Trying to get DHCP to 
> work though Linuxconf was a lost cause and somehow changed my Kernal 
> module from 3c90x to tulip (don't ask I have no idea). It took me hours 
> to get that streighten out and convince Cox to give me my IP back so I 
> could figure out what went wrong. BTW the level 2 people were *very* 
> helpful but don't mention Linux to the level 1 operators. I'm currently 
> looking for a HOW-TO on LDP if anyone knows of one please let me know 
> where.
> 
> Thanks,
> Carl P.
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