Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:03:03 -0600 From: "Brandon Young" <bkyoung@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: DCHP in FBSD 3.4 Message-ID: <000801bf6a8b$7a7d65a0$bd297c18@compaq>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Oh, great gurus...please shed some light on my situation. BACKGROUND: I am new to *nix. I started out on RedHat linux 9 months ago. That's the only *nix experience I have, but I have decided to make *nix my primary OS. I have messed around with other Linux distros, and OpenBSD. I really liked OpenBSD more than linux, but was not satisfied with the package availability...Enter FreeBSD 3.4. PROBLEM: I installed FreeBSD on my dual booter box (w/ Win98 - for the wife) at home. I have a cable modem. Cable modem uses DHCP & works fine in Win98. In FreeBSD, though, I cannot reach anything outside my cable company (i.e. I can ping the gateway, the Name server, DHCP server, etc. - but not , say, www.yahoo.com ). Now, I am not a heavy in the network configuration department, and I have no clue how to actually configure the network interface in FBSD. I've been running /stand/sysinstall & choosing the Configure option, and selecting Network, etc...and saying 'yes' at the 'try configuring w/ DHCP?' question. A couple of things I've noticed: I can look at all the stats in windows (ip address, name server, gateway, etc.) and compare that to the FBSD stats - and they're different (whereas in linux they were the same)...but when I boot into Win98 they're the same again. I vaguely understand that the cable company "leases" me a dhcp ip address (and in fact know that it renews the lease every 4 hours), but I have observed that my computer maintains the same ip address for 1 week. When I had linux on the machine, all the stats were the same in both OS's for that duration. Is there something different about the way FBSD determines that info? The problem, as described [not being able to reach the internet], makes me think there's a problem with the gateway at my isp...but that probably isn't the case since everything works in Windows. Even if I manually input the Win98 stats into FBSD, the same problem exists. QUESTIONS: what's the right way to configure a network card in FBSD (DHCP)? I noticed there's no way to specify a DHCP server address with the method of configuration I've been using in FBSD...is that something I should do? Should I even worry about it? Does it already have the ability to determine this info? Is there a config file I can manually edit? Brandon Young bkyoung@sunflower.com [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Oh, great gurus...please shed some light on my situation. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>BACKGROUND: I am new to *nix. I started out on RedHat linux 9 months ago. That's the only *nix experience I have, but I have decided to make *nix my primary OS. I have messed around with other Linux distros, and OpenBSD. I really liked OpenBSD more than linux, but was not satisfied with the package availability...Enter FreeBSD 3.4.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>PROBLEM: I installed FreeBSD on my dual booter box (w/ Win98 - for the wife) at home. I have a cable modem. Cable modem uses DHCP & works fine in Win98. In FreeBSD, though, I cannot reach anything outside my cable company (i.e. I can ping the gateway, the Name server, DHCP server, etc. - but not , say, <A href="http://www.yahoo.com">www.yahoo.com</A>; ). Now, I am not a heavy in the network configuration department, and I have no clue how to actually configure the network interface in FBSD. I've been running <STRONG>/stand/sysinstall </STRONG>& choosing the Configure option, and selecting Network, etc...and saying 'yes' at the 'try configuring w/ DHCP?' question. A couple of things I've noticed: I can look at all the stats in windows (ip address, name server, gateway, etc.) and compare that to the FBSD stats - and they're different (whereas in linux they were the same)...but when I boot into Win98 they're the same again. I vaguely understand that the cable company "leases" me a dhcp ip address (and in fact know that it renews the lease every 4 hours), but I have observed that my computer maintains the same ip address for 1 week. When I had linux on the machine, all the stats were the same in both OS's for that duration. Is there something different about the way FBSD determines that info? The problem, as described [not being able to reach the internet], makes me think there's a problem with the gateway at my isp...but that probably isn't the case since everything works in Windows. Even if I manually input the Win98 stats into FBSD, the same problem exists.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>QUESTIONS: what's the right way to configure a network card in FBSD (DHCP)? I noticed there's no way to specify a DHCP server address with the method of configuration I've been using in FBSD...is that something I should do? Should I even worry about it? Does it already have the ability to determine this info? Is there a config file I can manually edit?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Brandon Young</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><A href="mailto:bkyoung@sunflower.com">bkyoung@sunflower.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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