From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 7:53:51 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 4691737B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7377543F85 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:53:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1PFrjrX010451; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:53:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E5B9189.1060300@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:53:45 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: isp connection woes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Brian Henning wrote: > I have ATTBI for an isp, someone told me that the IP TTL is expiring on the way > to the server. Their network design supports no more than 16 hops on the way to > a DHCP server, > but increasing the (hard-coded) TTL > (at line 159 in /usr/src/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/packet.c) can help fix the > problem. > I would like to manually try to connect to my isp before i try changing the code > for DHCP. > I got my network info from my lrp operating system. I would like to switch that > to bsd. > can i use traceroute to find out the number of hops i am currently taking to get > to my isp's dhcp server? Don't see why not, assuming: 1) The DHCP server returns icmp echo requests 2) You know the IP of the DHCP server > manual configuration > -------------------- > ifconfig_rl0="inet 66.41.139.87 netmask 255.255.248.0" #66.41.139.87/21 > ifconfig_rl1="inet 192.168.1.254 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > default_router="66.41.136.1 rl0" This should be: defaultrouter="66.41.136.1" > default_router="192.168.1.254 rl1" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is wrong. Don't put that in. > domain the-matrix.net > nameserver 63.240.76.19 > nameserver 204.127.198.19 This goes in your /etc/resolv.conf > is there anything else i need to manually connect to my isp? As long as they allow the use of that IP, no. You should be good to go. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message