From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 14:20:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D7537B405 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.a1poweruser.com (oh-chardon6a-62.clvhoh.adelphia.net [68.65.175.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F6B43E58 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barbish@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish (lanwin1 [10.0.10.6]) by smtp.a1poweruser.com (Postfix) with SMTP id AB6FF1CB for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "FBSDQ" Subject: DHCLIENT problem Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:20:14 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm have a FBSD 4.6 box connected to the internet using a cable modem. I use the DCHP client that comes as part of the basic install to auto configure the FBSD box with it's ISP assigned dynamic public ip address and it's DNS ip address. The box act like everything is configured correctly because I can access the internet ok. Ifconfig -a on the NIC device connected to the cable model gives inet 68.65.175.62 broadcast 68.65.175.255 Every morning I have these 2 console messages 'DHCLIENT: New Network number : 68.65.175.0' 'DHCLIENT: New Broadcast address : 68.65.175.255' When I issue the ifconfig command in the morning after getting those two messages, I still get inet 68.65.175.62 broadcast 68.65.175.255. I thought the 'DHCLIENT: New Network number : 68.65.175.0' message is telling me that my public ip address has been changed from 68.65.175.62 to 68.65.175.0 Can someone explain what is happening here? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message