From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 04:59:13 2003 Return-Path: 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 0DBFE37B401 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 04:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9642E43FBD for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 04:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erichey2@attbi.com) Received: from rchpc3.home.com (12-254-23-4.client.attbi.com[12.254.23.4]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with SMTP id <200305051159120510058v9se>; Mon, 5 May 2003 11:59:12 +0000 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 05:59:50 -0600 From: collins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030505055950.0b5eafef.erichey2@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <031701c312c2$d2599ef0$6702a8c0@Bluesman> References: <031701c312c2$d2599ef0$6702a8c0@Bluesman> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Cable Internet Setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 11:59:13 -0000 On Mon, 5 May 2003 00:57:25 -0400 "Bluesman" wrote: > Hi any help greatly appreciated- > > I have never setup an internet connection with a cable modem and > router with freeBSD. I was wondering if maybe there was a skinny on it > that would help. The computer is seeing the network card as dc0. It > reports the ipaddress of the machine and the router. I can ping other > computers on the network, but when it comes to remote I can not. I > looked at some reference and it kind of led me to believe that I would > have to custom configure a kernel, which is no problem but want to > make sure there is not some easy network package that would eleviate > the problem. The isp I use which is comcast uses DHCP. I know I have a > hunch I am forgetting something simple. Again any help would be > greatly appreciatted. Sorry about the newbie question. > I would just run /stand/sysinstall as root and go to the section that does communications setup and select the DHCP option. I did that during the iso install, and my cable router/modem (actually only the router is seen by the system) was detected and setup with no problems. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area FreeBSD 5.0