From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 16:26:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56B537B401 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain (sdn-ar-001nybuffP245.dialsprint.net [168.191.115.7]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA15882; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00916; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:25:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: "Ian P. Thomas" Message-Id: <200106242325.TAA00916@scraemondaemon.my.domain> Subject: Re: cable connection problems To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:25:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010623130834.A35721@blossom.cjclark.org> from "Crist J. Clark" at Jun 23, 2001 01:08:35 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 was unable to see any messages on boot regarding DHCP. Here is what dmesg says about the NIC. fxp0: rev 0x0c int a irq 17 on pci0.1 3.0 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:02:b3:1a:b2:81 I do get this at the end though. Is this the DHCP info you were looking for? arp: 00:30:65:a6:a4:f8 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! arp: 00:30:65:a6:a4:f8 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! I think that ethernet address is the cable modem, which is a Motorola SB4100 Surfboard, because I only have one NIC. Is there a way to find out for sure? My Windows 98SE TCP/IP is as follows: Bindings Novell Netware Client (used at college, cable doesn't use it) Advanced None NetBIOS I want to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP (only used at college I think) DNS Config Disable DNS Gateway Empty WINS Config Disable WINS Resolution (Use DHCP is not checked) IP Address Obtain automatically Internet options has: Automatically detect settings Use a proxy server In Netscape I had to add in Manual Proxy Configuration HTTP proxy Port 8080 I don't think I am using DHCP in Windows. Is there a way I can enter a gateway, subnet mask, and IP address manually for my NIC? I can get the values from winipcfg. I used tcpdump with the options you suggested after running dhclient. Here is the output. 08:32:46.919578 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: xid:0x3c77524f [|bootp] 08:34:03.533741 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: xid:0x4a42dd2b [|bootp] 08:34:03.538512 hes1.buf.adelphia.net.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc: xid:0x4a4 2dd2b Y:ny-chicagost1a-176.buf.adelphia.net S:hes1.buf.adelphia.net [|bootp] (DF ) Anything else I should try? Thanks for the help so far, Ian In the last episode, Crist J. Clark stated... > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:22:03AM -0500, default013 - subscriptions wrote: > > Ian, > > > > Hi, I'm no networking expert or anything but... from my personal experience, > > I believe that most cable provider's DHCP servers do not really support DHCP > > for *NIX systems... Probably if one was knowledgable enough, one could set > > this up to work but, I have had a few different O/Ses on my cable connection > > and have found that DHCP never works quite right... > > DHCP is a protocol defined in RFC2131. DHCP does not know anything > about the operating system your host is running. > > But to the original poster... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ian Thomas" > > To: > > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 10:19 AM > > Subject: cable connection problems > > > > > > > I just installed my new Intel NIC and it shows up > > > fine > > > in dmesg. I have also added these lines to rc.conf. > > > > > > network_interfaces="fxp0" > > > ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" > > > > > > However, on reboot, I get this when I run an > > > ifconfig -a > > > > > > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast > > > 255.255.255.255 > > > > > > I'm assuming that I should have a real IP. In > > > windows > > > I don't use any software other than setting TCP/IP to > > > not > > > use DNS and obtain an IP automatically. I also have > > > Lan > > > Settings set to automatically detect settings and use > > > a > > > proxy is enabled. Any ideas? > > I believe there is some output from dhclient(8) during the boot. Did > you see it? Do you have a /var/db/dhclient.leases file? What's in it? > Kill the running dhclient(8) and run, > > # dhclient fxp0 > > And watch the output. If things still are not working, try, > > # tcpdump -w dhcp.dmp 'port 68' & > # dhclient fxp0 > > And forward the tcpdump(8) results to the list. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message