07-26-2001
Actually -- @Home rules vary slightly based on your cable provider. @Home is an internation company -- and in the US alone there are a dozen cable companies that have contracts with @Home. This of course changes continually becuase cable companies are continually buying out other companies ... for example TCI, or AT&T is always buying out everyone else.
In any case ... MOST of @Home does not provide static IP addresses, but "prefers" that you be set up statically -- this way they are free to change things on the network (splitting nodes, etc.) with out doing to much work like retaining IP addresses. What this also means ... is that even though most people don't have a "static" IP address, your IP address probably will not change for a long time - unless AT&T/Comcast/Insight ... whoever you MSO happens to be, do something in your specific local area as mentioned above (spltting nodes, etc.).
Some MSO's (AT&T is one of them) have started to "offer" static IP addresses... so that you can fill out a form online and supposedly your IP won't change, but only if you are running an OS that isn't compatible with DHCP. Hope this helps some. I have heard of one or two MSO's prividing static IP's at an additional chage - but I have also heard of those IP's changing also. The problem with this is that in the case of SOME MSO's... when you call @Home Tech support and tell them that your paying more money for a static IP... they most likly have never heard of such a thing... becuase local MSO's do it with out offering this service (seems that MSO's and @Home don't communicate there policies back and fourth as one would expect).
Hope this helps a little!
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WIRELESS(7) Linux Programmer's Manual WIRELESS(7)
NAME
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
SYNOPSIS
iwconfig
iwpriv -a
DESCRIPTION
The Wireless Extensions is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces. It is composed of a variety of tools and
configuration files. It is documented in more detail in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
The Wireless Tools are used to change the configuration of wireless LAN networking interfaces on the fly, to get their current configura-
tion, to get statistics and diagnose them. They are described in their own man page, see below for references.
Wireless configuration is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in the future the configuration procedure for a
few common distributions. For the time being, check the file DISTRIBUTIONS.txt included with the Wireless Tools package.
DEBIAN 3.0
In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking devices using the network configuration tool ifupdown(8).
File : /etc/network/interfaces
Form : wireless-<function> <value>
wireless-essid Home
wireless-mode Ad-Hoc
See also :
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
/usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian
SuSE 8.0
SuSE 8.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their network scripts.
Tool : Yast2
File : /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-*
Form : WIRELESS_<function>=<value>
WIRELESS_ESSID="Home"
WIRELESS_MODE=Ad-Hoc
See also :
man ifup
info scpm
ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia package, you can use this method.
File : /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
Form : *,*,*,*)
ESSID="Home"
MODE="Ad-Hoc"
;;
See also :
/etc/pcmcia/wireless
File PCMCIA.txt part of Wireless Tools package
AUTHOR
Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
SEE ALSO
iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).
wireless-tools 4 March 2004 WIRELESS(7)