PPPoE -> DHCP : how to switch ???

[Carlos Escutia Chávez]

1. Computer -> System configuration -> network
2. Select your network card, and click "properties"
3. Now, select "DHCP" from the drop-down list
4. That's it. You've got a new ip provided by your isp's connection server.


Regards


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:45:46 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Oh dear...
> 
> My ISP is about (anytime this month, maybe as soon as tomorrow), to
> increase my connection speed from 64Kbps up to 1024Kbps, for the same
> price.
> Great I thought. But, I just read on their site, that they have changed
> the rules. Currently, I connect to my cable modem using PPPoE. But my
> ISP says that when I switch speeds, I will have to connect using DHCP
> instead ! Cool, "DHCP", these 4 little letters that sound mysterious and
> always scared the hell out of me... now I must face them ! :-/
> 
> When I installed Ubuntu, I only had to run 'pppoeconf', enter log-in and
> password and 2 seconds later internet was working. What must I change to
> switch to DHCP ?
> I seem to remember that when I unstalled Warty, at some point, the text
> installer tried to connect to internet using DHCP. But I don't want to
> re-install Ubuntu, too much work !! :o(
> 
> I seem to gather that DHCP could, somehow, connect without even asking
> me for my password and log-in, sending the cable modem' MAC address to
> the ISP to identify my computer instead ?
> The ISP doesn't offer much support for Linux (at least they acknoledge
> its existence, so it's better than nothing...), all they say is that I
> must remove the PPPoE connection and install a DHCP 'client' instead.
> They say that there are many clients and that a popular one is to be
> found here : http://www.isc.org/dhcp
> 
> Please help me ! Please someone detail all the steps I must do to remove
> my PPPoE connection and replace it with DHCP.
> 
> Thanks much in advance
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vince, scared by DHCP, but looking forward to broadband at last ! :-)
> 
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