@Home and DHCP

[Brian Densmore]

> From: Charles K. Lee II [mailto:chuckx at cold-sun.com]
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:47:49AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > After they left, I did a little tweaking and got my laptop and
> > my home server to connect via static IP and routing table entries. I
> > could not make it work with DHCP.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the way @Home has their network setup, but I do
> remember somebody mentioning that you have to give a specific 
> hostname when
> registering with their DHCP server.  For example, if you use 
> dhcpcd, this it
> the command you would use:
> 
> dhcpcd-2.2.x -h "foo" eth0
> 
> As far as I know, the hostname should have been provided to 
> you by @Home.
yes I set my hostname to what they gave me. I have used the GUI tools in
Mandrake to configure this, so I am not sure what they are doing. I
wanted to try the idiot-proof way before getting down in the trenches.

> 
> Also, are you using the IP that was originally given to your 
> laptop as the
> static IP on your server?  Or did you just make one up?  Just curious.
Yes they gave me a static IP (WOO-HOO!). The paper lists my IP, the
cable modem's ip the Gateway, DNS, the netmask, and one other (forget).
Very cool, it was simple setting it up, except for DHCP. Here's the
funny part. The Windoze side, I had to tweak after they left because it
lost the proxy address, and I had to reconfigure it to just access the
Internet! Ha!

Thanks,
Brian