From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 11 23:12:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F2116A400 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 23:12:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wizlayer@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBCE13C448 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 23:12:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wizlayer@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1018861wxc for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 16:12:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:x-copyright-notice:x-copyright-info:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=X4/kzAjJn06SU1g3FU2o/ToHAlxKVhAmKsYdwfSb0O7daV9bfuIzPK/0r2my7SrLhso79wtlwAcqo45P1ig216XzwhGRWaz9iwXvR1xMP0k9hOBkQOo5Dw5riImEuP7V/e9GcGo4NFcp9QNKNJb5i8zY0FPI8AWypJ7S0PdOauM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:x-copyright-notice:x-copyright-info:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Tg1qL4VcRgNKksV33Rsa3YVOf6VgVRyPgTjp6FUubkYGIInjDp0DTYHgVc6iErHuVUjvIDxKE2eHNb3fSqyn0ZqcfT4RRrcVUJVi6JNQN5q5eJKVpj8oEBbaayqRmj5Ghjdavkz65DGqnVd59JO5DwhpLVshwqSDnqvIK3FSTWc= Received: by 10.90.90.16 with SMTP id n16mr3677600agb.1178925171250; Fri, 11 May 2007 16:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.2.252.239? ( [65.208.79.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 2sm12674217agd.2007.05.11.16.12.50; Fri, 11 May 2007 16:12:50 -0700 (PDT) From: WizLayer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:12:22 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <000c01c7941f$2def4120$02c5b07c@FLINDERS> In-Reply-To: <000c01c7941f$2def4120$02c5b07c@FLINDERS> X-Copyright-Notice: 2007 Michael C. Hauber X-Copyright-Info: This transmission is copyrighted and may not be stored, printed, forwarded, or distributed by any means without the author's written consent. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1198295.oXu2FUkfye"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705111912.23174.wizlayer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ppp & dhcp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: wizlayer@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 23:12:52 -0000 --nextPart1198295.oXu2FUkfye Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 11 May 2007 05:53:18 pm Mulga wrote: > Hi, > I have a very brain dead and full of them self ISP who insist on having a > misconfigured dhcp server. > > One essential peice of infomation is missing from the ppp transaction > "HISADDR" the GW . > > As ppp handles the dhcp side of things internally, would anyone like to > suggest a way of getting the server to reveal its address. > > To date I have tried running dhclient after the linkup, telling the ISP he > had a small inconsistancy, and got a ear full of abuse for that. > > As this provider "Telstra AU" is the only provider of this service I can't > change. So I need to work around there problem. > > Regards John I'm not sure what you are getting at. Are you saying that the HISADDR in p= pp=20 doesn't work because of your ISPs configuration? Or are you saying that=20 you're looking for your ISPs specifics for setup purposes? You could try a tcpdump on your if while connecting (or trying to connect).= =20 That should give you an idea of whats going on. whois, arpinfo...? HTH WizLayer =20 =2D-=20 Life is better with a BSD. =46or more info, www.bsd.org. --nextPart1198295.oXu2FUkfye Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGRQZn2y0gbVRgU1ERArnzAKDF9ZQXIPiiv3W45xYd8bCuwSAvAgCgvoc2 ReYte/2etCS55bpM9zRAKY8= =FWGc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1198295.oXu2FUkfye--