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Re: Setting up Telus ADSL on a RedHat 6.2 box --> Newbie needshelp.

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linux (linux@searchforithere.com)
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:33:50 -0800

> "Dan Berladyn" <dberladyn@home.com> wrote in message
> news:> news:3A6B6F28.67BB76E5@home.com...
> <snip>
> > My Telus ADSL connection
> > works on my Windows machine, but just not on my Linux box..... P.S. My
> > telus ADSL connection has one static IP, and no dymanic IP's, I dont
> > know if this makes a difference or not when configuring the computer to
> > use DCHP or not.
> > I hope this is enough info, and I hope someone can reply with the
> answers.......
> Roberto Pavan wrote:
> If you have a static IP, then why are you configuring your network
> connection to use DHCP?
> Your faithful narrator,
> Roberto Pavan rpavan@telus.net

I have the "professional home version" of ADSL from Telus with a static IP.
But it's a static/dynamic IP. All they do is permanently give you a
dynamically assigned IP. Mine is set up for DHCP and what George said in a
previous message worked for me:
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file:
>
>DEVICE=eth0
>ONBOOT=yes
>BOOTPROTO=dhcp

Ted Morton 

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