From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 3 3:23:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664EF37B400; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 03:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF3D43E42; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 03:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0073.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.73] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17aw4C-0004zU-00; Sat, 03 Aug 2002 03:23:25 -0700 Message-ID: <3D4BADAC.481BB6E3@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 03:17:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bri Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcp problems with my ISP References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bri wrote: > Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which > you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work > successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac > addresses of unix boxes and Apple macs I have and they seem to have alot of > difficulty obtaining IP addresses. Especially the UNIX machines which run > FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE or 5.0-CURRENT on sparc64 at the moment the sparc64 box > which is a Sun Ultra 5 which is the worst for detecting an IP with dhclient. > > What I would really like to know is what does the windows dhcp do > differently than say dhclient. > > I would be very interested to know as I would like a UNIX machine that can > maintain and IP address. Use the same exact NIC. Often, once the cable company sees a MAC address, it filters all other MAC addresses from getting a lease from your wire. The intent of this is to prevent people grabbing more than one lease simultaneously, or running more than one machine at a time. Ask Julian Elisher. He had exactly this problem with a machine in San Francisco, 2 years ago. Note: If you ask, he will say "Yes, I had exactly this problem"; he won't tell you anything you can do about it, except "Use the same exact NIC", because that's really the only fix. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message