Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:41 -0500 From: "James A. Coulter" <james.coulter@cox.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: NEWBIE: Logging into Cox Cable service Message-ID: <002e01c46759$3b9b72d0$5700a8c0@sabrina>
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I am running FreeBSD 4.10 and am trying to connect to my Cox ISP via a =
an
Ethernet nic and cable modem.
I have DHCP for the nic enabled in /etc/rc.conf and can obtain an IP =
address
from my Windows 98 gateway, but when I connect the nic to the cable =
modem
and reboot I do not get a response from the cox DHCP server.
The nic shows active in ifconfig, but no IP is assigned to it.
I suspect the Cox DHCP server is expecting a username and password from
dhclient.conf
I googled and the closest answer I found was a short article in the =
FreeBSD
Diary published in 2000 that gave this as an example dhclient.conf:
interface "de0" {
send host-name "cr123456-a";
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name-servers,
domain-name, time-servers;
require domain-name-servers;
}
I tried substituting my own interface and looked up the hostname info =
cox
provided to my Windows 98 box and swapped the computer names, but no =
luck.
Is my hunch correct? When I set up my Windows boxes to connect to Cox =
with
their CD, it always asked for the main account username and password =96 =
so
I=92m guessing when the dhcp client sends out its request for an =
address, the
Cox DHCP server is expecting a username and password.
Can anyone tell me how to send the username and password?
TIA,
Jim C.
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