From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 9:28:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D51E37B66C for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17066 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2000 16:28:50 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 4 Oct 2000 16:28:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 3460 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2000 16:28:50 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 4 Oct 2000 16:28:50 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:27:55 +0100 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: "'ifradsham@newtel.com'" , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: DHCP and netmasks Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:22:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The "supersede" directive in dhclient.conf allows you to override server-provided settings. For more details, "man dhclient.conf". HTH Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: ifradsham@newtel.com [mailto:ifradsham@newtel.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:13 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: DHCP and netmasks > > > I have a DSL modem and I am using DHCP on my FreeBSD machine. > The DHCP > successfully grabs the IP address for my ethernet (ed0) as > well as the > gateway and name servers from my ISP. However, it keeps assigning a > 255.255.255.255 netmask to my ed0. When I use a windows box > on the same > DSL connection, it gets a 255.255.255.0 address. I contacted > the ISP and > he confirms that the DHCP server is sending a 255.255.255.0 netmask. > > I can't figure out what is going on. My dhclient.conf is > empty and a I > configured the DHCP on my machine using /stand/sysinstall. > > Is there some default setting I am missing or is there some way to > override the netmask I am being provided? > > Thanks > > Ian Fradsham > ifradsham@newtel.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message