From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 19:11:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DD137B719 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA75920; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:11:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:11:26 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Rafael Caballero Jr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a cable modem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rafael Caballero Jr wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > I'm a newbie to FreeBSD as I've grown tired of Microsoft and chose to go > with FreeBSD as my choice of server at home. > I have a 233MHZ with 128 MB RAM. I've allocated 2.0 GB for FreeBSD as > I plan on running it for squid, webserver, and proxy. I have 2 NIC's > in it (3Com 3c905TX). I have a cable modem that DHCP's my IP address > so I've been trying to set up the ETH0 for DHCP but it will not allow > me or does not recognize the DHCP server at RoadRunner. How do I set > up my FreeBSD box to accept DHCP so that I can run NAT on my ETH1 so > that it may serve as a proxy? Just off the cuff, here, the proper identifier for the 905TX would be "xl", not "eth". "eth" is a linux thing, and is sometimes used here as a "placeholder" or example NIC driver. If that doesn't fix your problem, check your logs and see if your box is actually trying to negotiate. Find your current IP in another OS and try setting things statically temporarily to see if it's actually a DHCP problem, or a more general connectivity problem. > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.1 stable. > > Any ideas?? > > Thanks in Advance. > Rafael > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message