From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 13: 6:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.mcs.net (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A7837B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tforrest@localhost) by mailbox.mcs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA93293; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:05:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tforrest) Message-Id: <200101272105.PAA93293@mailbox.mcs.net> From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "root" Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:06:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" X-Mailer: BluePrint Software Works PMMail2000 with Bandit Tagger98 In-Reply-To: <200101272044.PAA17819@what.ifelse.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Tag: Bandit Tagger98 - Registered to : KE4PYM Subject: Re: Roadrunner, dhcp, FB 4.2-current Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Bill, one thing you should do is power off your cable modem when switching it from your Mac to your FBSD box. You'll confuse the modem with different MAC addresses. I too am a RR subscriber (carolina.rr.com) and I have had 0 problems. I find 15 minutes to be long enough. On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:44:36 -0500, root wrote: >Hi, > >Trying to get an ip from roadrunner, but no luck. >tcpdump shows the sending of the broadcast packet, but >that's where it ends. have enabled bpf and disabled >any firewalling that might be interfering. tried it with >an empty /etc/dhclient.conf file and with various options >that didn't seem to change anything. > >I also have a mac, with which dhcp works great... almost >a crime it is so easy :) I watched in tcpdump which the mac >booted and got an ip. saw the initial request and an immediate >response. > >I'm in Tampa, FL. If there is any other info I can provide, >please let me know. > >Thanks for any info, > >Bill > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: Windows: Proof that Microsoft has a roomful of monkeys with keyboards. PGP Public Key Fingerprint: E1FD 1327 D9D6 3D9A 6D5E 21CF 902D 41FC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message