Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:20:58 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Kennie H. Jones" <khjones@w3rite.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp & cable, @home (help me fight the MS monopoly) Message-ID: <20010926132058.A21680@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010926000700.007ad100@widomaker.com>; from khjones@w3rite.com on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:07:00AM -0400 References: <3.0.5.32.20010926000700.007ad100@widomaker.com>
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:07:00AM -0400, Kennie H. Jones wrote: > > The docs say to add "ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" to the /etc/rc.conf file > where fxpO is replace by the NIC id (x10 in my case). I assume this is > done by /stand/sysinstall when asking to setup for DHCP, but when mine > failed, it did not do so. As others have requested, please configure your mail client to "wrap on send" or "wrap as typed" or manually wrap yourself. In Eudora (highly recommended for OS's it supports) I disable the wrap-on-send but liberally use the Edit->Wrap menu. On the Mac holding the option key changes the Wrap item to Unwrap. This will go a long way toward helping you break out of the MS deathgrip. Also, just because a parameter is set (or might be) with sysinstall doesn't mean that is the right way or only way to adjust it in the future. The Unix Way is to give you enough rope to hang youself with. Or not hang youself. And maybe become a rodeo star. For starters, logged in as root, type "ifconfig" to see what interfaces yo have and what they are currently set to. The interface in question is ex-el-zero, not ex-one-zero as you typed above. Look for "status: active" as an indication the wire from your cable modem is live. Now, "dhcpclient xl0" should attempt to collect an IP address and misc from your ISP. If it doesn't work then you should have some indication as to where it failed listed. My cable company will only allow the one MAC address thru the one cable modem they have on file for me. If this is the case for you, and its not the same NIC they connected you with Windows, then see the man page for ifconfig(1) and look at the laddr parameter which lets you set the MAC address to what the cable modem expects. Is set using "laddr" but reported as "ether" when you type ifconfig by itself or "ifconfig xl0". Apple MacOS has a field for DHCP client config called, "DHCP Client ID:" which the other cable ISP around here requires. If the Windows install does something like that then you need to dig further into dhclient(1)'s man page to discover how to send that parameter. Once you manually get dhclient working then the line in rc.conf is all you need to make it work on reboot. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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