Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 20:56:14 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@crism.ne.mediaone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Ryan Paul Duda <zula@distance.net> Subject: Re: DHCP : @home network. Cable Modem. Message-ID: <199803220156.UAA26308@crism.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Mar 1998 03:18:49 EST." <351377E9.5DA3F3B7@distance.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Ryan Paul Duda] > I currently have a cable modem and I am having trouble getting > freebsd to work with it. I noticed that win95 does not have any > default settings.. it just obtains everything automatically. I also > noticed that it is using dhcp. So I installed dhclient (isc-dhcp2 > :port) I am having a hell of a time with it.. The default > configuration file is not working when I change the host-name and > dchp-client-identifier and option routes. If anyone has a cable > modem and is using the @home service or using a form of DHCP from a > cablemodem could you please send me your dhclient.conf or if you > have any input on the situation please fire some email to me. I had some problems getting my cable modem to work, but (to echo a thread on freebsd-newbies), about a week's worth of those were because my Ethernet cable had come disconnected. d-: It looks like, even though you have an effectively static IP address for any short period of time, the cable modem won't work right unless a DHCP request is made and answered. I'd planned to do a network install, but couldn't, because of this. I found that wide-dhcpc, from the ports distribution, is very reliable. The documentation is erratic, but if you add your Ethernet interface (ep0 or whatever) to /etc/rc.conf, and then just run `dhcpc ep0` (or whatever interface is appropriate), it'll work. Once you've got it working, add the dhcpc command to your /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. (Installing the wide-dhcp package will put a sample for dhcpd in that directory; I copied and edited that to run dhcpc instead.) - -crism - -- A Microsoft-free household. <URL:http://www.shore.net/%7Ecrism/>; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: For my public key, finger crism@crism.ne.mediaone.net. iQB1AwUBNRRvnXSaAdkmYoAJAQEAjwL9EyjVpeMnE6OzmEL2xih4BcpWu8J80vqT b9KfVJBgALKPqd+6UNqcNiMhN4ewLF0qmiRfFs6lGBxCLJWqKT5WKG07JSWTj0hI k0hrSfrSFXOtdNSw0h0R5JBHHYGLOPn3 =matw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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