On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:24:21AM -0500, Miller, John wrote: >I have att in columbia heights and mine quit working this morning. I have noticed a lot of traffic across my modem even when the interface is down. > >I am running the dhclient and it still can't get an ip. Any thoughts on why? I am running on dial backup, very painful. Yes well I can get a lease just fine on my b0rken at&t cable modem but can't route packets. I can't even ping the default route :-( A co-worker told me they need my serial number and MAC from my cable modem again. Seems they need to be reprovisioned. Assholes. > >John Miller >Information Services >Trade Clearance and Settlement >Home Number 763-572-1215 >mailto:john.miller at rbcdain.com > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Siegfried [mailto:sos at zjod.net] >Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:21 AM >To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >Subject: Re: [TCLUG] HELP AT&T broke my DHCP client! > > >Jon Schewe wrote: >> >> Today AT&T "upgraded" the server I'm connected to and my modem. After >> much time online with tech support, they believed it was a hardware >> problem. So I reinstalled win95 on the box in preparation for the tech >> to come out. Wonder of wonders it started working! >> >> So here's the status: >> - Win95, gets address just fine and everything works >> - OpenBSD/dhclient, can't get an address. It sends out requests and >> doesn't get back any offers >> >> If I just hardcode the address in it's fine, that's how I'm up now, but >> I'm going to have to be able to renew the lease. Anyone got any ideas? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net > > >AT&T recently (starting on 6/17) began an "upgrade to the provisioning >system". Among other things, this means they're mucking about with DHCP >stuff. > >If you're using pump (RedHat and Mandrake out of the box), visit > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/ >and download the latest version of dhcpcd (dhcpcd-1.3.22-pl1.tar.gz), >and then build and install it. > >Noting that it installs in /usr/local/sbin/dhcpcd, you then need to >change /sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown as per the changes listed in section >3.7 of the web page. > >Hope this helps, > >-S > > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "I got a wife and kids too but you don't see me out here stealing Imperial Droids now do ya?" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020618/15922870/attachment.pgp