From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 19:40:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11660 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mediaone.net (nvp.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.50.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11652 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:40:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nvp@mediaone.net) Received: (from nvp@localhost) by mediaone.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05481; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:42:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Nathan V. Patwardhan" Message-Id: <199809140342.WAA05481@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Using a cable modem with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980913190318.006a18dc@we.mediaone.net> from "gummibear@we.mediaone.net" at "Sep 13, 98 07:03:18 pm" To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:42:30 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Nate, thanks for the info but what else would I have to do? I'm sure there > must be some sort of scripts to set up or something like that? I'm just Yes, of course -- you'll have to set things up in your rc files (so that dhcp_client ethernet_device happens at bootup). But other than that, I can't think of anything right now. My experience was -- it's *that easy*! :-) I just read through a bunch of articles via freebsd.org's mailing list archive with 'dhcp' in the subject header and found out what I needed to. > the way that I want it. Once I get it set right, I'll download and install > the DHCP port. Which one do you suggest? As I'd mentioned before, I'm using the wide-dhcp port. I plan on switching to ISC's dhcpc when they release a "finished" version of 2.0. -- Nate Patwardhan, System Administrator O'Reilly and Associates nvp@oreilly.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message