From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 11 15:10:45 2004 Return-Path: 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 41DC116A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:10:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao09.cox.net (lakermmtao09.cox.net [68.230.240.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A394843D39 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:10:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james.coulter@cox.net) Received: from sabrina ([68.1.41.123]) by lakermmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040711151042.VTQZ12076.lakermmtao09.cox.net@sabrina> for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:10:42 -0400 From: "James A. Coulter" To: Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:41 -0500 Message-ID: <002e01c46759$3b9b72d0$5700a8c0@sabrina> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Subject: NEWBIE: Logging into Cox Cable service X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:10:45 -0000 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. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 7/9/2004 =20