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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:57:05 -0400
From:      "Kliment Andreev" <klimenta@futurebit.com>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: television cable internet service
Message-ID:  <000801c334f9$df5422c0$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com>
References:  <OF5334D70F.8A3ED68C-ON88256D48.005F1417@dot.ca.gov>

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> computer saw the cable network, but the cable refused to accept a logon
> request from the computer.  The technician said that he believed that
> neither B.S.D. nor any other Unix, nor any Microsoft product that could be
> programmed to act as a server was acceptable.  Has any other person had
the

I don't know about Comcast, but they probably also run a DHCP server. So you
need to tell
to your NIC to act as a DHCP client. Put the following line in /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig_nic0="DHCP"

where nic0 is the name of your NIC. (Check the name with # ifconfig -a)

You should get some dynamic IP.



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