From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 3:51:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C62A37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 03:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFEF43E75 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 03:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chaegle@attbi.com) Received: from toadstool ([24.245.39.15]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020913105131.FVXO25830.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@toadstool> for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:51:31 +0000 From: "Cameron Haegle" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: DHCP Problem Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 05:51:41 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well I have been struggling with my systems failure to successfully connect to my cable provider's DHCP server. Several folks have offered solutions, which I am grateful for, but did not resolve the problem. I finally received a response from a request I put into ATTBI's tech support and their reply was as follows. --- their response --- It has been reported that some Linux systems, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and possibly other Unix derivatives have been experiencing issues with connectivity due to network changes. Many of these systems have a hard-coded maximum number of 16 hops. In certain areas it may take 20 or more hops to reach the AT&T Broadband DHCP server. Changing the default number of hops from 16 to a number higher than 20 usually solves this issue. --- end of their response --- I have just updated my system to the 4.7-PRERELEASE and the provided dhclient still has problem. I have tried looking at the source for dhclient but see no obvious variable defining the maximum number of hops. Any ideas? Regards, Cameron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message