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
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>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
>
>
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