From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 1 22:28: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9FE037B718 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:28:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010302062806.ZQWA811.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum> for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:28:06 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f226SnN08305 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:28:49 -0600 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:28:49 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a cable modem Message-ID: <20010302002849.C7552@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010301042054.67801.qmail@web12506.mail.yahoo.com> <3A9E5224.C11CC6C3@mail.iowna.com> <1356958371.20010301085351@nc.rr.com> <20010301115731.B16644@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010301115731.B16644@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:57:31AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:57:31AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Know of two users with Comcast@Home in Huntsville, AL, one somehow > wrangled a static IP address. The other had to upgrade from MacOS 7.6.1 > so that the DHCP client could pass an optional parameter back to the > DHCP server. Cable installer called this parameter a "password". I use AT&T@home (formerly TCI), and they use the modem's MAC address for actual modem registration, and then your DHCP client has to send the hostname in order to get a lease. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message