Re: cable modem adelphia

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:05:40 -0500

Bob Beaty wrote:

> On 2004-02-18 20:36:39 -0600, msawicki@ucla.edu (Mark Sawicki) said:
>
> >> Does anyone have an Adelphia cable modem (DHCP---not static IP)
> >> working with IRIX 6.5 ?
> >
>
> Sure... I'm on Comcast cable modem with DHCP and so long as I have the
> chkconfig for autoconfig_ipaddress set to "on" then it'll work. In the
> case of Comcast the DHCP wants to set the hostname as well and that was
> just plain ugly.

I believe Comcast stopped with the required hostname shizm around 2 years
ago. You still need the fully qualified domain name though (along with
your hostname of choice). Maybe this differs in different area's - I'm in
NJ.

>
> I created a simple script that got run after proclaim (to get the
> address) that sets the name to what I wanted. Worked fine.
>
> The only catch seemed to be setting the default route in
> /etc/config/static-route.options as that needs to be set properly as
> well. Getting it right wasn't easy without a hex-bin calculator to
> figure out the gateway, but that may be Comcast as well.

hex-bin calculator? are you talking about how IRIX shows the netmask?
i.e. 0xffffff00 instead of 255.255.255.0 ?

In my static-route.options file, there is only one line:

$ cat /etc/config/static-route.options
$ROUTE $QUIET add net default XXX.XXX.XXX.1

where XXX.XXX.XXX.1 is my gateway's IP.

you can manually play with it also, just it is not permanent and will need
to be reset after a reboot:

# route add default <IP>

but you can do this from the "modify network settings" GUI located in
System manager also.

here is everything I have turned on via chkconfig:

$ chkconfig -s
        Flag State
        ==== =====

        autoconfig_ipaddress on
        cluster on
        desktop on
        grio on
        ipaliases on
        ipfilter on
        junkbuster on
        lp on
        mediad on
        network on
        netwr_client on
        nsd on
        proclaim_relayagent on
        routed on
        rtmond on
        sesdaemon on
        verbose on
        videod on
        visuallogin on
        windowsystem on
        xdm on
        xlv on

$ uname -aR
IRIX64 octane 6.5 6.5.23m 01080747 IP30

cheers!
mike

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