[GLLUG] Linux and ATTBI Question

Melson, Paul PMelson@sequoianet.com
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:33:09 -0400


> 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.

I don't believe that's been necessary since Excite went Chapter 11 and the ATTBI service as we now know it came online late last year.  I'm not using '-h' with pump, and I get an address just fine every time.

PaulM