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Raymond D. Mereniuk (Raymond@fbn.bc.ca)
Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:26:40 -0800
On 17 Mar 2001, at 16:37, Kevin wrote:
> Anyway, does anyone have any advice on how the techs react,
> if you are running an OS other than Windows/Linux? Any do's
> or dont's I should remember?
I just gave them a Windows 95 system and let them do their thing.
After they leave do what you want. I reformatted the Windows
system after a couple of weeks.
> PS - Did Shaw switch to DHCP? Or as I remember a year ago,
> you could you a static IP they usually provided on a yellow
> paper...
Shaw is switching to true DHCP area by area. I believe they have
done Richmond and South Burnaby and someone on the list
mentioned they are serviced by the Cordova headend and they
were converted to DHCP in the last few days. It appears Shaw
must return all 24.11*.*.* IP addresses to Rogers. Any of the
converted areas appear to have IP addresses of 24.7*.*.*.
Apparently, in the near future, Shaw will be offering some sort of
static IP service at additional charge. If they had their act together
they would offer this upfront and work around their network
changes. Shaw doesn't appear to operate in that manner. My
guess (!!!) is that once they revamp their network and return the
Rogers' IP address ranges they will then offer some sort of static IP
or host name which would be useful to the tele-commuter crowd.
Part of this guess is based on what happened in Calgary, a Shaw
cable town. At one point they realized they did not adequately plan
for the growth and when they did get their act together they
practiced radical DHCP, lease time was in the hours range,
apparently even host names changed. Even those who had older
Macs, the only folks who (from a service provider's point of view)
have a real claim to static IPs were ignored. Everytime an IP
address change went through they had to call tech support.
On a positive side there is some hope the local broadband
suppliers will be more accomendating in the future. While the
suppliers would like to enforce policies banning servers, VPN and
even telecommuting type activities it probably would not work. They
realize this is the future and if they fight it too hard consumers will
go elsewhere. There was an article in the New York Times last
week reviewing this subject, unfortunately I no longer have a link.
> And oh, yeah, how easy to setup is > And oh, yeah, how easy to setup is DHCP@shaw?
One manner which works follows. This is different than the advise
typically given on this list but it does work.
/etc/sysconfig/networkscripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
/etc/sysconfig/network
DHCP_HOSTNAME=cr??????-a
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=[optionally specify a hostname]
Virtually
Raymond D. Mereniuk
Raymond@fbntech.com
FBN - Harnessing The Dynamics of The Internet
http://www.fbntech.com
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