On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:18:20PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote:
> most cable providers authenticate based on either the MAC address of
> the NIC or by setting up the host name. in the commented
> /etc/dhclient.conf file there is some entries for both. uncomment the
> apropriate ones and try again.
If one is using /etc/network/interfaces, you could also use the
"hostname" and "client" options for a dhcp configured interface:
>From "man interfaces"
client client_id
Client identifier (dhcpcd)
hostname hostname
Hostname to be requested (pump, dhcpcd)
