[ale] @Home and Linux

[Michael Perigard]

I use my linux box with @home with no trouble. I manually setup my
settings (if @home ever changes my IP, I'm in trouble) because they
rarely, if ever, change.

As far as using DHCP, the only catch I found is you must pass your
assigned hostname as your 'client-id', *not* your hostname. The DHCP
client will autoconfigure everything for you, including your hostname.
Read your DHCP client man pages, it should just be a simple flag i.e.:

dhcpcd -I cc102537-q

I never set mine up to run at bootime, but I never really tried. After it
autoconfigured my settings (ran from console), i wrote them all down, and
configured them manually. 

Id reccomend dhcpcd from http://www.phystech.com/download/ . The
documentation is detailed, and it came highly reccomended to me.

-Michael

> You will need to pass the hostname to @home DHCP server, I believe.
> Â 
> It is assigned by @ home, like C123456-A..
> Â 
> Bao
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me if @Home cable modem service works with Linux (Mandrake
> 7.2)?  I tried asking their service department but all they could tell me
> was that "Since Linux is not part of the @Home software, then they were not
> authorized to answer that question."Â  If anyone does know the answer please
> let me know and also how to set it up as I am a novice.  Thanks.
> Â 
> Clayton
> 

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