From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 00:04:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E882216A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 00:04:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.240.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35F243D41 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 00:04:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thomas.heyman@student.kuleuven.ac.be) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FBB4B440 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 02:04:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from antonius.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (antonius.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.240.73]) by nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8D94B500 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 02:04:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pluisnet.kotnet.org (pluisnet.kotnet.org [10.67.121.198]) by antonius.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43ED74C0D1 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 02:04:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 02:04:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408090204.51775.> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by KULeuven Antivirus Cluster Subject: Re: DHCP help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 00:04:55 -0000 On Monday 09 August 2004 01:10, Peter Barton wrote: > Hello - > > I have been struggling with my DHCP connection for quite some time and even > though my interent search yielded some information that I used, the whole > thing still won't work. My problem is that my dhclient never finds any DHCP > servers on the Comcast network. The default dhclient that came with the > installation simply times out, the other one that I 'make installed' > according to the info posted at > http://networking.ringofsaturn.com.Unix/ipnatdfirewall.php keeps > complaining about my subnet(s). I would greatly appreciate any help, I have > spent a lot of time on this without any luck. > > Thanks, > Peter Peter, What exactly do you mean, "complaining about your subnet(s)"? Try starting dhclient with the -v option, and post the output please. I recently had similar problems with FreeBSD 5.2.1. My network card was working fine, dhclient kept sending out DHCPDISCOVER packets, but no offers were received. The problem was caused by my cable modem: it cached the MAC address of the NIC of my regular computer, and when I plugged in my FreeBSD box things went wrong because it had another NIC. The problem was solved by clearing the cache of my cable modem. On most cable modems this can be accomplished by yanking out the power supply, waiting 10 seconds, and plugging it back in ;) . I hope this helps, Thomas