Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:57:36 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcp problems with my ISP Message-ID: <20020806115736.B59516@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <E17bhc9-000K2z-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>; from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk on Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:09:37PM %2B0100 References: <NEBBKKNOEKKNLLNMEOHFAEBFIKAA.brian@ukip.com> <E17bhc9-000K2z-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:09:37PM +0100, Pete French wrote: > Whats your ISP ? I am on Blueyonder and this works fine for me. The thing > to do is to not change your NIC's though - even if you have registered the > new ones. Use one NIC, and one machine to act as a gateway if you want > several boxes connected. I'm on NTL[1] and do the same. So that's all the UK cable modem suppliers covered. The gateway box is also a firewall. > I keep a small Win2K partition on the BSD box for any visits by the Telewest > engineers, but my Ip address hasnt chnaged since I first signed up > to the service. All works very nicely. But not that. The NTL engineers around here know nothing about computers. They were baffled enough by the idea of plugging the RF output from the (TV) set top box into a computer. I "provisioned" using Netscape under FreeBSD. You do need to go through the set top box power cycles and (most conveniently) gateway reboot cycles as provisioning is done with 10.* addresses, which can cause some interesting interactions with firewall rules (8-) As far as I can recall, my IP address since my last provisioning has changed once. -hackers removed as this is surely off topic there. Indeed, this isn't a -stable issue either, but never mind. [1] Just for "connectivity". I use gradwell dot com (www.gradwell.com) for mail and web hosting. -- Adrian Wontroba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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