And to provide a little more info on the problem....
I use pump as it was (for whatever reason) installed with Debian Woody. Changing my dhcp client would require a net connection....
One thing I found out (by STFW: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/28208) was that Linux broadcasts it's MAC address in a different way to Windoze, so the suggestion was to reset the set top box, bring up the interface, then re-register on NTL.
Fine, only there's a problem. I wish to use a dedicated router/firewall (www.ipcop.org). I'm fine with transferring NICs between computers, however the ipcop box *could* ping outside (having transferred the NIC, and resolve hosts. So that kinda throws that theory away. Unfortunately, clients on the internal network can't resolve hosts or ping outside going through the ipcop firewall. (also, ipcop has now browser capable of doing the register process anyway. in fact, it comes with no browser).
I know the wordwrap is fscked, btw, as soon as I get connected in linux I'll use a proper mail reader.
Hi all I've been reading most of the posts for awhile now. Just keeping quiet in the background. Anyhow thought I'd add a my two cents.
I had a problem using pump (I use debian sid). The problem being that pump would not always get the info it needed from the dhcp server. I got round this by taking out my second Ethernet card so I only had the one. I then got all the software I needed ie. DHCPCD. Put the other ethernet card back in and it all stated to work.
remembering to turn off the machine when removing and adding the Ethernet card :-)
Hope this helps
Aaron
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:03:22 +0000 "Ricardo Campos" corez23@linuxmail.org wrote:
And to provide a little more info on the problem....
I use pump as it was (for whatever reason) installed with Debian Woody. Changing my dhcp client would require a net connection....
One thing I found out (by STFW: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/28208) was that Linux broadcasts it's MAC address in a different way to Windoze, so the suggestion was to reset the set top box, bring up the interface, then re-register on NTL.
Fine, only there's a problem. I wish to use a dedicated router/firewall (www.ipcop.org). I'm fine with transferring NICs between computers, however the ipcop box *could* ping outside (having transferred the NIC, and resolve hosts. So that kinda throws that theory away. Unfortunately, clients on the internal network can't resolve hosts or ping outside going through the ipcop firewall. (also, ipcop has now browser capable of doing the register process anyway. in fact, it comes with no browser).
I know the wordwrap is fscked, btw, as soon as I get connected in linux I'll use a proper mail reader.
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