From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 7: 9:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE005154B2 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 07:09:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05299; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:09:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA15251; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:09:13 -0500 (EST) To: "J. W. Ballantine" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcp failure References: <200001271435.JAA11482@akiva.homer.att.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 27 Jan 2000 10:09:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: "J. W. Ballantine"'s message of Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:35:26 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "J. W. Ballantine" writes: > I have cable modem service via RCN, and they recently changed the > address, so my machine is on a 216 net and the gateway is on a 10.17 > net. While this arrangement works for win98, with not ISP provided > software, it doesn't work with FreeBSD. That can't possibly work in IP, regardless of your operating system or version of the DHCP client. > Listening on BPF/ep0/00:20:af:26:b0:3c > Sending on BPF/ep0/00:20:af:26:b0:3c > Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net > DHCPREQUEST on ep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > DHCPACK from 10.17.44.251 I assume this is why you think your gateway has on a net-10 address. In reality, it has nothing to do with your gateway -- it's just the address of the DHCP server. dhclient doesn't normally tell you the address of your gateway. You can get that from netstat easily enough, assuming it's been set. > New Network Number: 216.164.36.0 > New Broadcast Address: 216.164.36.255 > bound to 216.164.36.XXX -- renewal in 1073741823 seconds. > tinlizzie $ Jan 25 11:46:19 tinlizzie dhclient: select: Invalid argument > Jan 25 11:46:19 tinlizzie dhclient: exiting. I'm not sure, but this could be a syntax error in your dhclient.conf. Maybe you have "select timeout" instead of "select-timeout" in that file? Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message