[ale] Telocity help?

[Fulton Green]

It might depend on which Telocity modem you're using (Jason, you probably
have the new VelociPort, whereas I have the older (and less fancy) box. But
on mine, I was able to get DHCP working (no PPPoE was necessary).

IIRC, Red Hat 6.2 marked the intro of their DHCP/BOOTP unified client called
pump. That had *serious* issues, though most of those had to do with
hostname-based authentication (my gateway does MAC-based authentication).

You may have to directly edit your /etc/ifup and ifdown scripts to use
dhcpcd instead. Since dhcpcd isn't installed by default, you'll also need to
install that package from your CD.

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:45:25PM -0500, James Kinney wrote:
> You can't setup DHCP directly on a DSL connection. It uses a process
> called PPPOE (PPP over ethernet)
...
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jason wrote:
> 
> > I'm running a redhat 6.2 machine at home on a new Telocity DSL connection.
> > When I hook up my Windows 98 PC, it connects fine with DHCP.  Here's what
> > Linux does:
> > 
> > I tried setting up eth0 with DHCP, as recommended -- it just fails, and
> > I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting this. When I set up eth0
> > statically using the netmask 255.0.0.0, I can connect fine but can't see
> > remote hosts with 64.*.*.* IP addresses.  Telocity's documentation and
> > tech support says I need to use the netmask 255.255.255.252.  When I
> > change the netmask to this, I can't connect at all.
> > 
> > So what I need is either: a) figure out how to get DHCP to work properly,
> > or b) figure out what settings I need to change to get connected
> > statically with the right netmask.  Telocity's tech support has left me
> > hanging, and clearly I'm not a network expert.  If anyone can help me out
> > with a solution to either I'd be most grateful.
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