From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 31 17:31:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.rdc1.on.home.com (femail1.rdc1.on.home.com [24.2.9.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E2D37B71A for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:31:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peteyng@home.com) Received: from asus ([24.114.210.194]) by femail1.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010401013005.YMEK20157.femail1.rdc1.on.home.com@asus> for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:30:05 -0800 From: "Pete Young" To: "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:35:37 +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: Moving from a static to dhcp Message-Id: <20010401013005.YMEK20157.femail1.rdc1.on.home.com@asus> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm having a hard time finding some documentation for this move. I'm > using a 4.2 stable kernel. I tried changing ifconfig_vr0 in rc.conf to > "DHCP" and making the change to dhcp in /stand/sysinstall but I've > obviously missed something because I'm not getting an address from > @home, my cable modem connection. I've looked around and found some > things but they've been fixes for much earlier kernels. > @home is changing all static users so it might be a good time for an > artical on the subject. > Thanks, > Mike Wilson You need to send your Client ID to the dhcp server. In /etc/dhclient.conf add the line send dhcp-client-identifier "your client id"; -- Pete Young peteyng@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message