[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: AT&T back up!

[Kenneth Loafman]

One thing to watch out for on the Linksys routers.  If you go to the
setup page, select "get IP address automagically", hit continue when it
says that the settings have been saved, the old page shows up and it
looks like nothings changed.  Change to the status page and you have
your settings.  After that its all OK.

...Ken

Fred James wrote:
> 
> My discussions with AT&T today ended with them saying they do not now
> support static IPs, and they are not sure they ever will.  A sales rep
> from AT&T has promised to call by tomorrow afternoon to either confirm
> or deny - will be glad to advise the list of what I am told at that time.
> 
> I use a LinkSys DSL/Cable Router and had been using a static IP - I have
> been trying to get it going with DHCP on the Internet side, with no
> success so far (it all seems so cut and dried in the manual) - has
> anyone had any success with this set up as yet?
> 
> brian at pongonova.net wrote:
> 
> > Sorry about not attaching to the thread earlier...I'm not yet
> > receiving mail from the mailing list...
> >
> > For those of you with AT&T, the service in Garland came up around 2000
> > yesterday evening.  Unfortunately, AT&T is being very adamant about
> > not giving out static IP's (I had one originally), unless you have an
> > unsupported version of MacOS.  Anybody by chance know which versions
> > of MacOS don't support DHCP? :)
> >
> > On a Linux-related note, dhclient seems to work OK with
> > the new service.  Fire it up, point it to the right interface, and you
> > should get a response back from AT&T's DHCP server.
> >
> > If this doesn't work, you might try hitting the DHCP server directly:
> > 12.242.18.34.  Also, my gateway seems to be 12.237.176.1, but YMMV
> > depending on where you live.
> >
> > So maybe someone can answer me this:  If I accidentally terminate my
> > dhclient, and never update my dynamic address, will it get reissued at
> > some later date?  I'm pretty torqued about losing my static IP, but I
> > don't see anywhere in my agreement requiring me to ask for a new
> > lease.
> >
> >   --Brian
> >
> >
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