From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 25 15:56:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (mail2.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D192E37B76E for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:56:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peteyng@home.com) Received: from asus ([24.114.210.194]) by mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000325235641.CLPH20865.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@asus> for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:56:41 -0800 From: "Pete Young" To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 18:57:45 +0500 Reply-To: "Pete Young" X-Mailer: PMMail 1.96a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: A @home problem Message-Id: <20000325235641.CLPH20865.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@asus> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:29:12 -0800, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: >@Home's DHCP server only works if it can verify that your NETBIOS name is >your account name, like mine is cx440370-a. If my netbios name wasn't >cx443070-a on my windows box, I wouldn't be able to use DHCP (I'd have to >put the information in manually). Since FreeBSD doesn't have NETBIOS names >built into it, I don't believe you can use DHCP with @Home with FreeBSD. >Instead just enter your information manually in /stand/sysinstall. If you >need certain information you don't have, here's some help: > >Your gateway would be your IP address, except the last number (octet) would >be 1. >An @Home DNS server is 24.5.247.17 I am using DHCP with @home. /etc/rc.conf includes: ifconfig_mx0="DHCP" /etc/dhclient.conf includes: send dhcp-client-identifier "CRxxxxxx-A"; do not forget the semicolon at end of the line. - Pete Young To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message