From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 10:10:11 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 10:10:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xellos.bignet.net (xellos.bignet.net [64.79.64.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B8037B402 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from t4e5g6 ([64.31.24.173]) by xellos.bignet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA00495 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:10:07 -0500 Message-ID: <020901c06b92$efde62a0$ad181f40@bignet.net> From: "Jason" To: Subject: dhclient problems Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:13:29 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am now certain the fault must be my ISPs but I cant seem to convey the situation to the tier 2 support techs. Here is what I am seeing. dhclient reports: Address already in use My ISP reports several MAC addresses on my account but none of them seem to be the only one I have pluged in. These addresses are still visible even after I compleyely power down my DSL router (Flowpoint 144) They were going to try and filter all the other mac addresses at their Cisco router and since doing that I now get streaming messages about every 1-2 seconds on all screens that says: dc0: watchdog timeout. ifconfig reports inet assigned address is 0.0.0.0 anyone can help me direct my ISP better...or might know what would cause this situation? excuse the typos...but I am very frustrated...especially now that I discover my sales rep no longer works for the company and he promised me a static ip on my contract which my ISP now denies (although they cant seem to locate my DSL contact in their records). They say that since there is no contract on file with them and I have had the service for more than 3 months I am bound by default to the standard contract listed on their web page...calling for DHCP...could be worse...they could require PPPoE like covad.net does :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message