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From: Dave Broudy
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 07:32

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In article <Jw3G7.3497$Ze5.2623864@news1.rdc1.md.home.com>,
	"Dennis Herndon" <dherndon43@home.com> writes:
> Does anyone have experience with using Comcast @home internet service
> (using the Motorola SURFboard cable modem) on their Linux machine?  I

I'm using one right now, without problems. The setup was pretty straight
forward, just make sure that your dhcp client is configured to send the
hostname that comcast gives you. Note that you don't actually have to make
that the hostname of your machine. In fact I believe that even if you do it
won't have the desired effect.

For me this meant editing /etc/dhclient.conf to have:

interface "eth2" {
	send host-name "cjXXXXXX-a";
}

Hope that helps.

-- 
Dave Broudy		dave+spam@broudy.net

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