Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:59:46 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dhclient not setting IP ... Message-ID: <001801c0b33c$f06ae1c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103221727260.41105-100000@mobile.hub.org>
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> I'm connected through cable to the 'Net, and the provider I go > through, it appears, somehow has it setup that if I change nics, I hvae a > bugger of a time re-acquiring a lease ... I presume dhclient is what you use to get your IP address. I've seen ISPs that record the MAC address of the interface, and won't give out addresses to any other MAC address but the original one. They'll expire that MAC eventually, but perhaps not for 24 hours or a week. I've also seen ISPs that require the 'host-name' parameter to be set in dhclient.conf, and if not, won't return any DHCP queries at all. I doubt that this is your problem since you're seeing the problem on more than one machine. What does dhclient log into /var/log/syslog? If you see a lot of DHCPDISCOVER / DHCPREQUEST lines but no DHCPACKs, then your ISP's DHCP server isn't a) getting your requests or b) responding to them. In the case of b), it may be because your MAC address or host-name. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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