From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 10:35:46 2003 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 46F1637B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:35:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.vagner.com (ns1.vagner.com [65.39.87.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591CA43F93 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:35:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@vagner.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by ns1.vagner.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id h18IZZ04074203; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:35:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@vagner.com) Received: from vagner.com (pcp02972580pcs.manass01.va.comcast.net [68.48.106.33]) by ns1.vagner.com (8.12.5/8.12.5av) with ESMTP id h18IZT89074195; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:35:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@vagner.com) Message-ID: <3E454E06.6010607@vagner.com> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:35:50 -0500 From: Laszlo Vagner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021229 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: Brian H , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connecting to my isp References: <3E454939.5080700@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Bill Moran wrote: > Brian H wrote: > >> I am trying to switch my router from Linux Router Project to FBSD 4.7 >> because i think i can get more functionality with bsd :) I am running >> into a problem with getting it connected to my isp. >> >> i have a cable connection and the way that the LRP connection is >> through dhcp. it uses the mac address as a means to authenticate. > > > What do you mean? Do you mean that your ISP will only give you an IP > if your MAC is registered? Is your MAC on this machine registered? > >> What turn on "DHCP" in /stand/sysinstall configure networking menu. > > > When it asks you if you want to use DHCP and you say 'yes'. > >> It just hung there for a while and then returned no information from >> the dhcp server. > > > During installation? Or are you doing post-config? Can you ALT+F4 (I > think > it's F4, might be F3) and see any errors wrt DHCP? > >> Is there anything i can do to just get connnected to my isp? > > > This has worked fine every time I've done it. > I have comcast and can DHCP it fine, my GF has ATTBI cable and i cant get it to DHCP for the life of me although i can manually put in the settings and it will work. both systems are 4.7-stable. both work with windows2000 fine though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message