if your cable modem is less then 6-8 months old it could be locked by the
mac address of the nic for the turbolinux system and your solaris machine
will not be able to work. this is why i will not change my modem
-----Original Message-----
From: warrior@sanynet.ne.jp <warrior@sanynet.ne.jp>
To: slug@owlriver.com <slug@owlriver.com>
Date: Sunday, April 22, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: [SLUG] help with Roadrunner
>I have a Turbolinux 6.0 Workstation which has been connected to
>Roadrunner and running fine for some time. On a spare partition on the
>same box, I installed Red Hat 7.0. Although I have setup DHCP in
>linuxconf and also have tried to mimic the
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts files as they are setup in Turbolinux, I
>cannot get Redhat to recognize the Roadrunner network.
>
>I am wondering if there are any special settings that have to be made to
>allow for DHCP used with Roadrunner (is it different from DHCP used on a
> regular LAN), but I don't know where the DHCP config files are. I
>never set anything special on the Turbolinux system; it came up to the
>network automatically.
>
>(PS. I have a sparc box running Solaris 8 that has the same problem.
>DHCP is set, but it can't seem to receive the address from RR like it
>should. What setting am I missing?).
>
>If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>
>Thanks.
>
>David W.
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