The key to getting DHCP working with Cox@Home is the provided hostname. I'm
not sure
what you're using as a dhcp client (dhcpcd or pump) but with pump:

/sbin/pump -h cxblahblahblah -i eth0
(where cxblahblahblah is the Cox provided hostname)

This will send your hostname in the DHCP request. This is required for Cox
to assign
your machine an ip address. You can add a "DHCP_HOSTNAME" option to your
ifcfgeth0
script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts (may be Redhat specific). This will
make it
so that the hostname is always sent when you do an ifup.

By the way, pump seems to work better than dhcpcd.

Good luck.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Carl
Parrish
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:22 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: DHCP


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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