(FWD)linux, cable modem, and RCN

[Derek Atkins]

As I said, pump _just worked_ for me with RCN.  The installers come,
plug everything in, and then they turn the stuff on.  They wait a
couple minutes for everything to sync up.  They may call back to the
home office to make sure stuff is turned on.  Then you plug-in, "turn
on your machine" (e.g.  run pump), and you should be on the net.  Just
do this part yourself and ask them what they want to test.  Generally
you can prove you're on the net by going to some web page (or pinging
something).

Also, pump logs to daemon.* so you probably want to put this in
syslog.conf:

daemon.debug		/var/log/debug.log

-derek

John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes:

> | VA uses Red Hat -- you should have 'pump' installed.  And Pump works
> | fine for me on my RCN cablemodem.
> 
> Hey, thanks for the clue! I hadn't noticed pump, and its name doesn't
> exactly attract they eye when looking for dhcp stuff.
> 
> Now on to the next question.   To  try  to  get  at  least  minimally
> prepared, I noticed the comment in "man pump" that it writes a lot of
> stuff to syslog at the debug level.  Ok, I thoug;  I'll  just  add  a
> couple of lines to /etc/syslog.conf:
> 
> # DHCP client [jc]
> dhcp,pump.debug                     /var/log/dhcp.log
> 
> I then did the obvious
> 	: touch /var/log/dhcp.log
> 	: /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart
> 	: pump -i eth0
> 
> It failed as I'd expect, since  eth0  is  there  and  alive  but  not
> physically connected to anything but a dust bunny. Absolutely nothing
> got written to /var/log/dhcp.log, though you'd expect at least a line
> about the failure. The /var/log/messages file did grow, but only with
> syslog and kernel messages, as you'd expect.  Nothing from pump.
> 
> What am I doing wrong here?  (I note that "man syslogd.conf"  is  not
> very  informative  as  to  just what goes before the dot in the first
> field.   I  thought  that  "dhcp"  and  "pump"   oughta   cover   the
> possibilities in this case, but apparently not. When I need to use it
> for real, it might be nice if I can get a lot of info about why  it's
> failing (which is of course the expected behavior).
> 
> Is there a way to verify this sort of thing beforehand?  Or will I be
> stuck  with  just  sending  out  a  "Help!"  message  after  the  RCN
> installers are long gone?
> 

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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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