slackware and Optonline

Greets

I have been tring to set up my optonline cable modem with my slackware
box and no luck.
I had the box previously configure to nat for my dsl.

I used netconfig to reset my ip to a dhcp and reset my box.
Each time it restarts it times out on the dhcp lease.

Has anyone had any experience setting up optimumonline cable modem
with slackware.
if so can you please shed some light as to why the dhcpd is not
getting an ip from the cable modem but I can do it with win.

-thanks

In article <7f841719.0308171250.4d429042 RemoveThis @posting.google.com>,
Turath wrote:
> if so can you please shed some light as to why the dhcpd is not
^^^^^ dhcpcd
> getting an ip from the cable modem but I can do it with win.

First, don't confuse the server daemon with the client daemon! Second,
RTFM "man dhcpcd". Third, check your rc.inet1 to see that -d is used.
Finally, see your syslog facility local0.debug output, and perhaps you
will know what's happening.

Some providers require a hostname. Is this the same machine, same NIC
under both OS's? Some providers lock you to a single MAC address. You
could *try* asking their tech support, but you'll surely need to speak
to the second tier.
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