From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 17:30:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00464 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt093n15.san.rr.com [204.210.49.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00372 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 3065 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Oct 1998 00:29:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:29:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: Jeffrey Bernt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP In-Reply-To: <000701bdf3b2$06e7ba60$2e8ad38c@cyberc.oit.edu> 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 Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jeffrey Bernt wrote: > I can not get dhcp (wide or isc, both of which are in the > distribution cds) to work correctly. It will not even acknowledge that > the dhcp server is out there, nor will it assign me an IP. Should I just You could try for a static IP, yes, but first, have you verified that your ethernet card is working properly, and that FreeBSD is recognizing it? It would show up in your startup messages on doing a "dmesg" command; an NE2000-compatible card would probably show up as de0. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message