Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 02:04:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tiarnan O'Corrain <ocorrain@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless networking with DHCP "tickets" Message-ID: <20040226100449.1243.qmail@web11205.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> writes: > On Feb 26, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote: > >> According to Orange WiFi, this is because the DHCP server sends >> some kind of a keep-alive ticket to the client every 2 minutes, and >> if the client does not respond, the lease is revoked. > > This is rather normal; and unless you have some firewall set up too > strict works just fine with macosx/freebsds normal dhclient. See > RFC3202 (the newer force-renew) and RENEWING/REBINDING in rfc 2131. Alas, it does not work, and Orange WiFi have also had calls from MacOS X people who can't get this to work. So I imagine the problem is slightly different. Authentication is done through a web-browser, whither one is directed after logging on for the first time. When the lease is revoked, all network services are blocked until authentication details are entered through the web-browser again. I am not running any firewall software on this laptop. Also, probably should have mentioned: ~(0)% uname -mnrs FreeBSD epiphyte 4.9-STABLE i386 Tiarnan O Corrain ===== Tiarnan O Corrain (on-site at Vodafone NL desk phone: +31 433 554 161 mobile: +31 627 404 866 email: ocorrain@yahoo.com)
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