I need help setting up a home network through ASL. My ISP uses DHCP to allow access, but ASL doesn't connect when I setup using DHCP. Is there something that I am missing here.
If you are using a cable modem, the cable company's dhcp server may only respond to the MAC address they have on file for your NIC that connects to your cable modem. (I think most cable is now this way; I don't know about DSL.)
If you are in this situation, be sure the MAC address of your eth1 is the same as the MAC address your cable company has on file. If not, I understand you can call them, tell them you've changed the NIC that connects to the cable modem, & they will record the MAC address of the new NIC. (I prefer to spoof the MAC address, but this takes some doing in Astaro, at least for me.)
If you don't already know, you can find the MAC address of eth1 in Astaro's Webmin, at Network/Interfaces, Hardware Device Overview window at the bottom of the page.
If you are using a cable modem, the cable company's dhcp server may only respond to the MAC address they have on file for your NIC that connects to your cable modem. (I think most cable is now this way; I don't know about DSL.)
If you are in this situation, be sure the MAC address of your eth1 is the same as the MAC address your cable company has on file. If not, I understand you can call them, tell them you've changed the NIC that connects to the cable modem, & they will record the MAC address of the new NIC. (I prefer to spoof the MAC address, but this takes some doing in Astaro, at least for me.)
If you don't already know, you can find the MAC address of eth1 in Astaro's Webmin, at Network/Interfaces, Hardware Device Overview window at the bottom of the page.
I am using a cable modem, but I also have two other machines connected to the internet using dhcp (1 linux, 1 winXP) so I don't think it is a mac address problem.
