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Da Rock wrote:
> On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote:
>> Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system.
>> Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server 
>> has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my 
>> Freebsd 8.2 box functions because it worked fine under att service 
>> which I just left for Time Warner service. MY xp laptop works fine 
>> with time warner. I can see that during the connection hand shake they 
>> first issue ip addresses 192.168.x.x then end up with real public 
>> routable ip address for dns and my ip address. Just the dhcp ip is 
>> 10.2.0.1. XP seems to handle this connection hand shake ok.
>>
>> Does any one have any suggestions on how to get Freebsd 8.2 working 
>> under TW?
> 
> Have you got a firewall or something else blocking dhcp from 
> communicating? What does ifconfig say?
> 
> 
No firewall running and NIC status is "no carrier"