From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 28 16:21:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.mcs.net (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6091137B6A0 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:21:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tforrest@localhost) by mailbox.mcs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA55093; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:21:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tforrest) Message-Id: <200101290021.SAA55093@mailbox.mcs.net> From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" To: "billt" , "David Kelly" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:21:40 -0500 Reply-To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" X-Mailer: BluePrint Software Works PMMail2000 with Bandit Tagger98 In-Reply-To: <200101282335.f0SNZ8G29099@grumpy.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Tag: Bandit Tagger98 - Registered to : KE4PYM Subject: Re: Roadrunner, dhcp, FB 4.2-current Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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