[ale] Problem connecting to internet

[Dow Hurst]

What does pump do different from dhclient or dhcpcd?
Dow


Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> I had Adelphia years ago (now, I'm a proud Speedfactory user :-D ), and 
> had to use pump to get an IP every time I rebooted.  When the box was 
> booting, and got to my outside nic, it would always fail.  If I waited 
> until it booted, logged in, and ran pump (I believe the syntax was pump 
> -i eth0 or something).  I'm not sure if SuSE comes with pump, but I'm 
> pretty sure that dhcpcd has a similar option.  Hope this helps.
> 
> Trey Sizemore wrote:
> 
>> I moved recently and now have an Adelphia cable high-speed connection to
>> the internet.  I previously had a cable internet connection as well, but
>> with a different provider.  My linux boxes are set to get their IP and
>> nameservers via DHCP, but for some reason, I'm unable to do so with the
>> Adelphia cable connection.  The initial setup of the service was done
>> (as required) on a Windows machine (my Dell Latitude D600 laptop) and I
>> can connect (as I am now) via Windows to the internet.  This laptop is a
>> dual-boot setup and my SUSE 9.1 *can't* seem to get an IP or nameservers
>> and connect.  The 'ifconfig' command shows the eth0 interface with some
>> Rx and Tx packets, but no IP address and pinging outside sites like
>> yahoo.com and linux.com says they can't be found.
>>
>> The adelphia tech support says they can't really help, but are sending
>> someone later today to check the modem (although, again, it works fine
>> with Windows).  I wanted to see if anyone else on list had experience
>> with Adelphia or knew of something I might try. 
>> Also, I've tried to connect with the cable connection and my linux
>> desktop with the same results (or lack thereof).  These machines were
>> connecting with the other cable provider as recently as 5 days ago and
>> I've not changed anything on the machines.
>>
>> Thanks for any tips.
> 
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