On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 19:56, Andrew Robertson wrote: > Hi. I just installed Debian last night on my system, > and everything works great except the network. I have > a cable modem, and the DHCP server requires that I > send in my hostname with my request. So far, I have > tried (and failed at using): > 1) using pump to explicitly define my hostname > 2) using dhcpcd to define my hostname > 3) automatic configuration with dbootstrap > > I had problems with this before in Linux (I previously > used suse, but switched for moral and ethical reasons, > plus they have been getting shady lately), but the > command dhcpcd -h XXXXXXXXX eth0 (where > XXXXXXXXX is my hostname) seemed to fix it. Please, > if anybody has any idea how this problem could be > solved I would be very appreciative. Thanks!!!!
You need to add something like this in /etc/network/interfaces for your dhcp interface: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname your-host-name and the ifup tools should do it automagically. --mike
