Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 18:57:45 +0500 From: "Pete Young" <peteyng@home.com> To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A @home problem Message-ID: <20000325235641.CLPH20865.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@asus>
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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
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