From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 20:20:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grace.speakeasy.org (grace.speakeasy.org [216.254.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C08F37BD86 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@speakeasy.org) Received: (qmail 16778 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2000 03:20:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO term3-164.speakeasy.net) (216.231.33.164) by grace.speakeasy.org with SMTP; 20 Apr 2000 03:20:52 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:20:51 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Otter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just got my DSL today...AARGH!! In-Reply-To: <002201bfaa75$7a80a510$555be3d8@telocity.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Otter wrote: > something else that may help: > my isp provides me a static ip, yet if i try to config it as static, it > doesn't work. i have to set it up as DHCP and it works like a champ, giving > me the same ip every time. one of their employees explained it's operation > to me once. it just didn't make sense to me WHY they do it that way. try > setting your nic in rc.conf to "DHCP" instead of inet xxx.xxx.. netmask > xxx.xxx...." it's worth a shot. You're lucky your ISP's employees are capable of explaining something like that. What I got when I asked for help was: "You bet I can help you. You're running windows, right?" "No" "Mac?" "FreeBSD" "FreeB...wh.." "Unix" "Would you hold for a minute?................................................ ............................................................................. ............................................................................. ......................I'm sorry, we don't support Unix. But if you go to linux.blahblah.com, there's all kinds of information to help you get set up" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message