Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 07:36:15 -0500 From: "David Daugherty" <davidd@datasphereweb.com> To: "'Don'" <kindredmnementh@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help?? Message-ID: <20040531124747.1CC0C43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040531100906.72418.qmail@web20023.mail.yahoo.com>
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Don > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:09 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help?? > when booting there is a long pause when the dhclient > starts....my guess is it is querying the server for the dhcp > info. however once it comes back up it shows me as having > BROADCAST of 255.255.255.255 and nothing I have done has > enabled me to fix it. Just a shot in the dark on my part, but if you're trying to install with a cable modem try power cycling the modem. I had a similar problem when switched out my NICs. It would hang for about 1-2 minutes on the dhclient part of the boot then not give me an IP. --- |> /\ \/ @ davidd@datasphereweb.com DataSphere - Databases, back end web programming and networking 317.536.1858 ICQ: 21106703 "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
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