From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 23 15:31:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.drf.com (mx2.drf.com [208.139.165.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E68937B405 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@drf.com) Received: from mx3.drf.com ([192.9.231.46]) by mx2.drf.com (Switch-2.0.1/Switch-2.0.1) with ESMTP id f5NMWTn08022 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 18:32:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from FranciscoW2K ([192.9.231.71]) by mx3.drf.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA06370 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 18:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200106232228.SAA06370@mx3.drf.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 18:32:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Retaining same MAC (Re: Need help configuring ethernet DSL modem) 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 On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:23:20 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: >I just got a Wiltell Wirespeed DSL modem yesterday. >I tried with windows first: configured the machine with the IP as per the instructions and set the proper gateway. It worked. > >I then tried to do the same with FreeBSD, but it is not working. I thought maybe it was PPPoE. Wrote to the ISP and they wrote back saying > >ISP->No. Its straight ethernet. Just plug in your modem, and configure IP >ISP->address you were given to your ethernet interface. >ISP->ifconfig xx0 66.114.xx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 After many, many hours troubleshooting why a FreeBSD machine could not connect it turns out the ISP uses MAC based authentication. I had first connected the DSL modem to a different machine so the authentication was failing. Does the MAC address ever change unless I change the hardware? Francisco Reyes Daily Racing Form Technical Support Manager freyes@drf.com (212) 366-7752 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message