Setting up DHCP under Corel for @Home Cable
Posted by: 6plpy

I see a lot of people are having problems getting DHCP to work with @Home cable modem service. Well, see if this works:

(I'm using Corel Linux, but may work for other distributions)

with a text editor, open up:
/etc/init.d/dhcpcd

Scroll Down and look for:

"##### MAIN FUNCTION ###"

it is about 40 lines from the end of the file. Somewhere between the
""## Main Function ###"" and the end of the file, you will see:

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $IFACE

you need to change this line to:

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- -h "machinename" $IFACE

For @home service, "machinename" should be something like cr123456-a

adding the -h flag sends your computer name with DHCP request to the @Home servers.

If you see more than once instance of "start-stop-daemon ..." then I guess you need to modify them all.

If you have problems in addition to the steps above, that you may need to get rid of :

/etc/rc.2/S20ppp

and

/etc/rc.3/S20ppp

because these scripts sometimes interfere with the DHCP initialization.. dont ask me why, but the tech support guy at Corel told me so.

6plpy