Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:44:06 -0800 From: "Calvin Smith" <calvins@csts.org> To: "'Doug Hardie'" <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems running dhclient on 6.1 Message-ID: <00f001c7287e$94287c20$9701a8c0@ces> In-Reply-To: <21DCB01C-C4BB-4C4F-A189-F8D3A1BFE697@lafn.org>
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Thanks for the response. That has fixed the problem. -----Original Message----- From: Doug Hardie [mailto:bc979@lafn.org] Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 2:09 PM To: calvins@csts.org Subject: Re: Problems running dhclient on 6.1 On Dec 25, 2006, at 13:06, Calvin Smith wrote: > I just built a new system as a firewall using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE- > p11, IP > Filter V4.1.8 and am getting "No DHCPOFFERS received". I am > connected to the > internet via Comcast broadband. My old system running FreeBSD 4.6- > RELEASE > and IP Filter V 3.4.29 works just fine. I plugged my external > network port > into the internal network to see if I could get an assigned ip > using my > internal dhcp server and this worked just fine. When I try to use the > external connection to Comcast via the cable modem I receive no > replys to my > dhcp requests. I have tried swapping out different net cards with > the same > problem. There is probably something simple I am missing, but I > can't see > it at this time. Any help would be appreciated. You may need to reset the Cable Modem. Power it off for 5 minutes to clear its memory of the original computer MAC address.
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