Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:21:40 -0500 From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" <tforrest@mcs.net> To: "billt" <billt@what.ifelse.org>, "David Kelly" <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Roadrunner, dhcp, FB 4.2-current Message-ID: <200101290021.SAA55093@mailbox.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <200101282335.f0SNZ8G29099@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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Roadrunner has no such requirement. On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:35:08 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >billt writes: >> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM wrote: >> >> > Hi Bill, one thing you should do is power off your cable modem when >> > switching it from your Mac to your FBSD box. You'll confuse the >> > modem with different MAC addresses. I too am a RR subscriber >> > (carolina.rr.com) and I have had 0 problems. I find 15 minutes to be >> > long enough. >> >> left the modem off overnight, but no luck :( >> >> tried this under linux 2.4.0 using dhclient, pump, and dhcpcd - but same >> results as on freebsd. could it be hardware? > >Works with the Mac, but not with FreeBSD or anything else on the PC? My >ISP cable company will not issue an IP address via DHCP to any but the >recorded MAC (not Macintosh) address. They have to be called and told >what it is, then 15 to 60 minutes later it works. Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: Nyquil -The stuffy, sneezy, why-the-hell-is-the-room-spinning medicine. PGP Public Key Fingerprint: E1FD 1327 D9D6 3D9A 6D5E 21CF 902D 41FC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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