From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 28 11: 2:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501C737B43C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:02:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds107-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.107] with ESMTP id UAA15020 (8.8.5/1.13); Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:02:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00602; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:02:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:02:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: MrBoboo Cc: "newbie @ freebsd" Subject: Re: DHCP servers, or getting online with cable modem In-Reply-To: <000a01c0108a$b31fa260$0200a8c0@mesqt1.tx.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You better can ask this in freebsd-questions. But then you should send some more info like output of "ifconfig -a", "netstat -rn", and DHCP configuration data, error messages etc. If you run "apropos DHCP" it will show you the names of some man pages which you can use to find out in which files DHCP is configured. I never have used it before, so I cannot help you in this. Janko van Roosmalen On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, MrBoboo wrote: > i cant get freebsd to work with DHCP, the only way i can get it online is to set it to a static IP > > i will go into /stand/sysinstall, and select my NIC, it asks to search for DHCP servers i say yes, then a bunch of kernal lines come up > > then i do a control-C, it then goes into the NIC config screen, everything is filled out correctly, it finds the server, then it has my comp name, then my complete online address, then my DNS servers and gateway info, it pulls up my default subnet mask, then i say ok, then it asks to bring it up, i select yes, > > then i cant browse or ping any site, i reboot > > still not online (no pinging any sites work nor browsing), > > but if i set it to static everything is ok, (I DONT HAVE A STATIC IP, IT IS A LEASED IP FOR 1 WEEK) > > how do i fix this > > rob wideman > > mrboboo@home.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message