Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:49:00 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhclient not setting IP ... Message-ID: <20010323144859.A50150@mx.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103230854250.41105-100000@mobile.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:55:14AM -0400 References: <001801c0b33c$f06ae1c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103230854250.41105-100000@mobile.hub.org>
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I've heard folklore that power-cycling the cable-modem works - apparently it's the thing that remembers the MAC. Barney Wolff On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:55:14AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > I'm connected through cable to the 'Net, and the provider I go > > > through, it appears, somehow has it setup that if I change nics, I hvae a > > > bugger of a time re-acquiring a lease ... > > > > I presume dhclient is what you use to get your IP address. > > > > I've seen ISPs that record the MAC address of the interface, and won't give > > out addresses to any other MAC address but the original one. They'll expire > > that MAC eventually, but perhaps not for 24 hours or a week. > > this is what it appears it was ... called up their tech support last > night, the girl there said "we dont' support Unix", I asked her to release > the IP and low-n-behold, I got a new one ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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