[GLLUG] Linux and ATTBI Question

[Jeff Lawton]

When attbi was @home you have to use your account id as your hostname when
they switched to attbi they converted to using MAC for accounting.

Jeff Lawton
Ideal Solution, LLC
www.idealso.com

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On
Behalf Of Matt Graham
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 11:11 AM
To: GLLUG Post
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Linux and ATTBI Question

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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