From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 2: 6: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lh10.opsion.fr (lh10.opsion.fr [212.73.208.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B837937B6A4 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 02:05:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from 212.68.216.190 [212.68.216.190] by lh10.opsion.fr; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:52:50 GMT From: seppludwig@isuisse.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:02:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: freebi question: DHCP, PC as workstation/client loosing the lease Message-ID: <3A72AAD5.29103.991929@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cFR) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hallo everybody - I'm a newbie and so far very pleased with FreeBSD except for two problems - of which the DHCP problem is the most serious. I have a pc connected to the net via cable modem which (i hope) is configured as a workstation rather than a server. If I boot into W95 and then return to FreeBSD (i.e. reboot from the FreeBSD partition on the same machine), FreeBSD does not seem able to get a lease. This can last for hours. W95 doesn't have this problem (I go to W95 for e-mail and newsgroups such as this!) on booting back to FreeBSD I get the following: "Doing initial network setup:hostname" "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR):can't assign requested address" ...and it stops there for HOURS (I usually re-boot to W95 to get anything done or go to bed!) In Netscape (under X) on FreeBSD I sometimes get the following messages: "Warning: the host .xxxxx.xxx is unknown" (xxx etc = the domian name of my provider) "This means that some or all hosts will be unreadable" "Perhaps there is a problem with your name server!" "If your site must use a non-root name server, " you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable " to point at the appropiate name server. " It may (or may not) be necessary to set this variable, " or the SOCKS host preference, to the IP address of the host in question rather than its name." I am only running a workstation client connected to the net via a cable modem. I DO get connected - but then lose the connection as explained above. Can anybody help? Until I solve this problem I can't rely on my FreeBSD for mail etc. regards Sepp ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message