Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:35:08 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> To: billt <billt@what.ifelse.org> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Roadrunner, dhcp, FB 4.2-current Message-ID: <200101282335.f0SNZ8G29099@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from billt <billt@what.ifelse.org> of "Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:59:38 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101280847460.348-100000@zaius.poa>
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billt writes: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM wrote: > > > Hi Bill, one thing you should do is power off your cable modem when > > switching it from your Mac to your FBSD box. You'll confuse the > > modem with different MAC addresses. I too am a RR subscriber > > (carolina.rr.com) and I have had 0 problems. I find 15 minutes to be > > long enough. > > left the modem off overnight, but no luck :( > > tried this under linux 2.4.0 using dhclient, pump, and dhcpcd - but same > results as on freebsd. could it be hardware? Works with the Mac, but not with FreeBSD or anything else on the PC? My ISP cable company will not issue an IP address via DHCP to any but the recorded MAC (not Macintosh) address. They have to be called and told what it is, then 15 to 60 minutes later it works. I forget exactly how to determine the MAC address of a Mac (something like "hold the Option key while opening the TCP Control Panel") but if you can find it then "ifconfig dc0 lladdr 1:2:3:4:5:6" (use the real address) will have your FreeBSD system using the same. Cable company should be none the wiser. When you do "ifconfig" by itself you'll see the above addres replace the one currently on the "ether" line. Had to do this recently when my NIC (and cable modem and computer) was nuked by lightning. When I got everything back together and running the ISP support line was closed for the night. "lladdr" got me up and running. A problem a friend had and never quite figured out was the same machine when rebooted in Windows always was issued a new IP address. And another new one when it returned to FreeBSD. Yet on a different cable company which issued 2 week leases Windows always had one IP address and FreeBSD another. Same NIC. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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