[wplug] Re: dhcp on @home

[Cox, Brian]

We just fired up @Home in Washington about 3 weeks ago, and they way dhcp
was planned to be ran is that every hostname has a dhcp reservation.  Now,
this is way I understood it to be, when the people in Denver provision a
modem they enter the IP Address and match it to the MAC address of the
modem.  The reason they wanted to do this is because some people were using
extra IPs and not paying for them.  Now this what heard in the office so it
probably has changed a few times.

-Brian 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Nelson [mailto:ronelson at vt.edu]
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 2:05 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Re: dhcp on @home


DHCP is tricky for one simple reason: each area is different. I'm in State
College, PA (actually Bellefonte, which varies from State College, and even
parts of State College are different) and normal (without a hostname) dhcp
used to work. Then, it didn't. Now, it's supposed. But I called AT&T and
asked for an IP address. You may want to do this too. Their DHCP servers
won't assign an IP that is pingable. So long as you keep your machine on all
the time, this will work for you.

Rob Nelson
ronelson at vt.edu

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