Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:15:51 +0000 From: Michael Wells <mwells@zeus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> Subject: Re: [Q] ntlworld and dhcp configuaration Message-ID: <20010104141551.A17241@imap.cam.zeus.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3A54831B.206CD49E@witchspace.com>; from jon@witchspace.com on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:05:15PM %2B0000 References: <3A54831B.206CD49E@witchspace.com>
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Hi Jon, Firstly, rest assured it works - I use an NTL Cable Modem with FreeBSD 4.1. My invocation is simply "dhclient rl0", where rl0 is my network card attached to the cable modem. /stand/dhclient-script is run after the details have been obtained from DHCP. It sounds to me like you aren't reaching the DHCP server, because dhclient is fundamentally very simple - you can barely go wrong. Use ifconfig -a to check what your network cards are doing. Don't set a default gateway in /etc/rc.conf (that's a common gaff) and don't run any firewall in ipfw...should get you something working, hopefully. Cheers Michael. On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:05:15PM +0000, Jonathan Belson (jon@witchspace.com) wrote: > Hiya > > > I've just set up an cable modem account with NTL and > I'm trying to get FreeBSD to configure my network card > via dhcp. > > Using 'winipcfg' under Windows works fine - configuration > is almost instant. Using 'pump' under Linux similarly > works fine. > > However, 'dhclient' just sits there until the connection > times out...there is some traffic, but nothing happens. > I did a tcpdump (attached) if that gives any clues. > > I'd be grateful if someone could give me any clues - I'd > really rather use FreeBSD than Linux for my firewall, but > I've wasted several days on this already 8^( > > Thanks, -- Michael Wells, <mwells@zeus.com> Zeus Technology Ltd Zeus Professional Services Universally Serving the Net Tel:+44(0)1223 525000 Fax:+44(0)1223 525100 http://www.zeus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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