[Wolves] Blueyonder DHCP

[Aquarius]

Jon Farmer spoo'd forth:
> Hi Guys
> 
> Well I finally got Blueyonder installed. Due to circumstances beyond my
> control at the time I got the system up and running on my laptop's PCMCIA
> NIC and it tested out ok.. Later I tried to add the NIC address of eth0 on
> my gateway machine via the selfcare website. This failed and when I
> contacted BY tech support they told me there were issues with the selfcare
> website and instead took the additional MAC address over the phone. The
> support girl said it would take anything from 20 mins to 24 hours for the
> change to work and that powering off the modem for 30 mins might help.. well
> we are nearly up to the 24hrs and its still not working. All I have done is
> told /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 that its DHCP. Do I need to
> configure anything else? When I try to bring the interface up it looks for a
> DHCP server but after about 30 secs it timesout and returns failed. Should I
> be doing anything else to make my system compatible with BY DHCP?

I suspect that they might be lying about having registered your MAC
address. Last time this happened to me I was tearing my hair out until
I rang up to confirm...

Aq.

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