[GLLUG] Linux and ATTBI Question
Matt Graham
danceswithcrows@usa.net
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:10:40 -0400
On Friday 27 September 2002 10:41, after a long battle with technology,
Melson, Paul wrote:
> Yes. Using vanilla DHCP client settings will work just fine with
> their network.
Eh? I was under the impression that ATTBI supplied you with a hostname
when they installed the box, and you had to invoke dhcpcd with that
hostname. Like so:
dhcpcd -h ATTBI-HOSTNAME eth0
...instead of the usual "dhcpcd eth0". This may not be true anymore.
> (That is to say, they won't
> help you get fetchmail and mutt working with your attbi.com e-mail
> address.)
No problemo, mail.attbi.com is running a mostly-standard POP3 server on
port 110. I've telnetted to it plenty of times.
> Their tech support folks will still help you troubleshoot
> the network settings on your Win32 box, regardless of whether or not
> their software is installed.
I never touched the ATT software, just set my 'Doze98 box's computer
name to ATTBI-HOSTNAME and set it to "obtain an IP automagically".
After making sure I could ping msu.edu and make an HTTP connection to
slashdot.org from 'Doze, I rebooted the machine to Linux and issued
"dhcpcd -h ATTBI-HOSTNAME eth0". No problems whatsoever, whee!
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