From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 17:50:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from msg3.ureach.com (msg3.ureach.com [209.191.157.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC6237B424 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www10.ureach.com (IDENT:root@www10-2.ureach.com [10.2.1.29]) by msg3.ureach.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA01407 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:49:59 -0400 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www10.ureach.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA29270; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:49:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:49:59 -0400 Message-Id: <200008230049.UAA29270@www10.ureach.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Jackson Reply-To: Subject: Cable modem and DHCP with Rogers@Home Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-vsuite-type: e Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a newbie to FreeDSD and UNIX after recently getting Verion 4.0 from Walnut Creek. Problem 1: I can get the OS up ok but have been going nuts trying to connect to Rogers@Home here in North Vancouver, Canada. Rogers does not provide static IPs, only DHCP dynamic IPs. My system is a new pentium III 650 MHZ computer with no apparent hardware conflicts. I'm not at all sure I configured the card correctly though. Most explanations seem to expect a dial-up connection.I can ping one of Rogers' name servers through my current set-up with 100% return. However, they run 4 name-servers. Three of them return a "Host not running" ( or similar) message. Should I be using PPPoE? Which configuration files should I be tweaking? Problem 2 After successfully installing FreeBSD from CDROM I am able to mount the CDROM in order to install other packages but then am foiled because my computer doesn't recognize the CD as FreeBSD. Can you help me out?:) Much appreciated! Dave J ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message