Setting up linuxconf w/ cable connection-ip address?

[kuber]

How can I find my IP? Isn't it constantly changing or something? I'm (still) trying to set up my linksys card. I ran linuxconf but have no idea what to do for this
thanks,

kuber

[Iceman]

Hi kuber:

What sort of connection do you have? Cable (tell us the ISP) Dialup, or are you on a university LAN. We need to know that. Also, if cable, does the provider use DHCP or a static IP addy.

[kuber]

I have a cable modem through a router that goes to my pc. I know it is randomly chosen-so is it not static? ISP = service provider? If so, charter communications.

[mikeylikesitz]

I had problems with support for my linksys card, they provided support for linux but i could never get it right. I had to finally get a 3com

[birdguy]

Originally posted by mikeylikesitz:
I had problems with support for my linksys card, they provided support for linux but i could never get it right. I had to finally get a 3com

After having problems with my linksys, I found that the driver for this card is called tulip. Once I started netcfg (from within a term window in X) and changed the driver to tulip, my linksys worked beautifully.

[demetrius]

What kind of router? If your cable modem is passing through a router to your pc then your ip is going to be assigned by your router not your isp. The router will be assigned the external ip and then assign internal ips to the pc's that are connected to it.

[kuber]

It is a linksys etherfast router. It goes to a cable modem that has a random ISP. So what do I do???

[demetrius]

I've only ever used that router for a weekend with a buddy, but I'm pretty sure it assigns ips by DHCP. You should just need to set up you nic card to pull all its info via a DHCP client. There's quite a few to choose from but dhcpd is pretty standard i think. As far as the router goes from what I remember it was prety straight forward .. it should pick up the external ip on its own and also has a html based configuration utility that you can access via a browser from your internal ip to configure port forwarding, firewall and lots of other nice features.