does anyone have Charter Cable Internet?

[vhg119]

i'm trying to get the dhcp working with the cable modem but it doesnt seem to work.
the modem works fine under windows.
I have a dynamic Ip so i have to use dhcp?
how do i do this under linux?
i checked the "use dhcp" under netcfg but it doesnt work. can someone give me some step but step to how you did it?

[bdg1983]

What distro?

eth0 up and running?

Do you have the hostname setup? What is it??? dhcpd -h your_assigned_cable_hostname

Something like that. I've seen it posted in the forums.

Sometimes just resetting the cablemodem gets it working.

[vhg119]

redhat 7.1
eth0 works fine
but i cant get it to retrieve ip address with dhcp.

[cypunk06]

I have charter @ home, I did NOT select DHCP.
I have had the same IP for 6 months, get all the info from them, gateway, DNS,
the mail server is weird, mine in GA is just mail....nothing eles. after talking to support I find out it's actually mail.ganvil1.ga.home.com
don't use the odd name for yor domain neither, if you look in you network 'hood you'll see it's something like ci324124-a or some crap, in linux you HAVE to give it the correct one like this, ganvil1.ga.home.com
anyway after playing with it for about 30 min. i got it working.

[teeitup]

Windows machine/Linux machine are they the same box? If not disregard this post.

If they are different boxes power cycle the cable modem. Most cable modems bind to the mac address of the NIC card. The power cycle will clear this and allow binding to a new NIC.

Good Luck,