Re: dh-client setup problems

[James Mayer <james.mayer@acm.org>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:18:20PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote:
> most cable providers authenticate based on either the MAC address of
> the NIC or by setting up the host name. in the commented
> /etc/dhclient.conf file there is some entries for both. uncomment the
> apropriate ones and try again.

If one is using /etc/network/interfaces, you could also use the
"hostname" and "client" options for a dhcp configured interface:

>From "man interfaces"
              client client_id
                     Client identifier (dhcpcd)

              hostname hostname
                     Hostname to be requested (pump, dhcpcd)