From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 8: 6:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E1537B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2690343E4A for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfolkins@comcast.net) Disposition-notification-to: dfolkins@comcast.net Received: from groovy3xp (pcp01731796pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net [68.83.131.193]) by mtaout02.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with SMTP id <0H2Q00B84SMIAT@mtaout02.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:06:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:06:10 -0400 From: dfolkins Subject: Re: PPP connection via a GMC router To: Fuji Zhang , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <004c01c260b7$41148260$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Fuji Zhang" To: Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:22 PM Subject: PPP connection via a GMC router > hi, i had ADSL working via a D-Link card to Bell Sympatico just fine. then > my roommate wanted to share the ISP w/ me. so we bought a GMC router. He > had his Linux box working behind the router. but my FreeBSD box stopped > working. what am i missing? your help would certainly be appreciated. > please respond to this address directly as i am not subscribing to list > now. maybe if you specify what exactly is not working someone could help you out. if you mean the network functions are not working, i would recommend going into your config files to see what's up. if you previously set your ip statically in your conf files, you probably now will want to set it through dhcp (as in, set that interface = to "DHCP" in your rc.conf), because that gmc router is probably using dhcp to assign your box an internal ip. to test out this theory, try running "/sbin/dhclient if0", where if0 is the name of your ethernet NIC (e.g. xl0, dc0, etc). hope this helps. -- dfolkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message