Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:08:35 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: default013 - subscriptions <default013subscriptions@hotmail.com> Cc: Ian Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable connection problems Message-ID: <20010623130834.A35721@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <OE37r2iz2Mb1s7nlT2N000030bc@hotmail.com>; from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:22:03AM -0500 References: <20010623151916.46400.qmail@web11302.mail.yahoo.com> <OE37r2iz2Mb1s7nlT2N000030bc@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:22:03AM -0500, default013 - subscriptions wrote: > Ian, > > Hi, I'm no networking expert or anything but... from my personal experience, > I believe that most cable provider's DHCP servers do not really support DHCP > for *NIX systems... Probably if one was knowledgable enough, one could set > this up to work but, I have had a few different O/Ses on my cable connection > and have found that DHCP never works quite right... DHCP is a protocol defined in RFC2131. DHCP does not know anything about the operating system your host is running. But to the original poster... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 10:19 AM > Subject: cable connection problems > > > > I just installed my new Intel NIC and it shows up > > fine > > in dmesg. I have also added these lines to rc.conf. > > > > network_interfaces="fxp0" > > ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" > > > > However, on reboot, I get this when I run an > > ifconfig -a > > > > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast > > 255.255.255.255 > > > > I'm assuming that I should have a real IP. In > > windows > > I don't use any software other than setting TCP/IP to > > not > > use DNS and obtain an IP automatically. I also have > > Lan > > Settings set to automatically detect settings and use > > a > > proxy is enabled. Any ideas? I believe there is some output from dhclient(8) during the boot. Did you see it? Do you have a /var/db/dhclient.leases file? What's in it? Kill the running dhclient(8) and run, # dhclient fxp0 And watch the output. If things still are not working, try, # tcpdump -w dhcp.dmp 'port 68' & # dhclient fxp0 And forward the tcpdump(8) results to the list. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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