[olug] New COX managed network bad for Linux

[Joe Mastandrea]

DId you get DHCP going with the new cox.net?  If so, it sounds like a 
great OLUG meeting presentation topic.  I've been looking for a new 
cox.net hoto, since the only ones out there are for cox at home.

I witnessed a Cox employee trying to put one of their computer store 
demos on cox.net, and it wasn't pretty.  He still didn't have it working 
by the time I left (some of the problems were related to XP and the 
store computer's network adapter).  But that was only after 20 miinutes 
of trying ;)

In an earlier message on this mailing list, someone reported that a Cox 
employee said something about Linksys equipment not working with cox.net 
.  I assumed that meant the Linksys router, so I pointed to a Linksys 
router on the shelf and asked the Cox employee if such a device would 
work on cox.net .  The Cox employee said it would.

I'm just searching for an updated "howto" and a smooth transition next week.

Joe



Phil Brutsche wrote:

>A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
>>have a look at dhclient, it'll do the Cox dhcp thing in the Linux/*BSD world
>>
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>Yes it'll do the DHCP think for Cox - I use it :)
>
>dhclient won't update dyndns.org DNS entries, though.  That takes a
>separate client.
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>Phil
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