Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:43:04 -0500 From: "Ted Stockwell" <tstockwell@attbi.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: dhcp client and AT&T broadband Message-ID: <006b01c2188a$55b5da90$0b02010a@TICK>
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I had a problem recently and thought others may be interested in the fix. My FreeBSD box using the ISC dhcp client stopped working with AT&T Broadband. It turns out that AT&T made a change to their infrastructure so that there are now so many hops that the TTL on the DHCP client messages expires before reaching the server. The client set the TTL to 16, and it looks like there are at least 18 hops from my spot on the network. (most of their customers do not have a problem because the Microsoft client uses at TTL of 128). For anyone who is interested, a patch and some notes are available at: http://www.visi.com/~tstockwell/dhcp_ttl.html -- Ted Stockwell, tstockwell@mesabi-tech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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