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Subject: Re: dhclient and ADSL modem trouble...
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On Thursday 01 September 2005 11:45, Digital Brain wrote:
> >You sure the ISP doesn't use PPPeE?
>
> The modem acts as a bridge. All I have to do is turn it on; it then
> synchronizes with the ISP's network (PPPoA). Then I just execute dhcpcd
> eth0 from the linux machine (connected to the modem) and I'm assigned an IP
> and a default gateway in mere seconds.
>
> Unfortunately, as simple as it is in linux, it doesn't seem to work with
> freebsd...
> It should have worked with dhclient ed0, but the dhcp server's reply gets
> lost somewhere.

Do you have any possibility to sniff working linux/windows packet exchange as 
well as non-working freebsd's? While I am no network/dhcp guru, I think this 
way you could get more hints/help or maybe even patches to fix this issue...
Milan