can't get online

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:07:06 +0200, Duncan Lithgow wrote:

>>It sounds like you instead have one
>>machine hooked directly to the cable modem. Am I far off?
>>
>>
> That's right, and no. I'm not logged in when I run dhcp - ip assignment
> is dynamic (is that what it's called?) so I can't log in to my provider
> until after I have an ip - does that sound right?
> 
> Duncan

I was thinking you might have a 10.x.x.x address before logging in and a
62.x.x.x address after, but I guess I was wrong. Without seeing what your
machine's routing table ("netstat -rn") looks like before and after
logging in, I doubt I could figure out exactly how they're doing it.