Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:26:34 -0500 From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Subject: Re: dhclient not setting IP ... Message-ID: <20010323012634.A17921@argos.org> In-Reply-To: <001801c0b33c$f06ae1c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:59:46PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103221727260.41105-100000@mobile.hub.org> <001801c0b33c$f06ae1c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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--qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 0, Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> wrote: > > I'm connected through cable to the 'Net, and the provider I go > > through, it appears, somehow has it setup that if I change nics, I hvae= a > > bugger of a time re-acquiring a lease ... >=20 > What does dhclient log into /var/log/syslog? If you see a lot of > DHCPDISCOVER / DHCPREQUEST lines but no DHCPACKs, then your ISP's DHCP > server isn't a) getting your requests or b) responding to them. In the c= ase > of b), it may be because your MAC address or host-name. Easy way to verify this is throw the -e flag into tcpdump - it'll print the MAC addresses of the tx/rx ethernet interfaces... If the "to" addr isn't the one of your ethernet card (or more to the point, it IS the one of the ethernet card that you originally obtained a working lease from), that pretty much proves that's the problem. Now if I could just figure out why one of my DSL providers keeps getting the MAC address for the >inside< ethernet card of my firewall for some (not all) IPs... =20 mike --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjq67JoACgkQJol4I8h9Gd+3sQCeIRbfKTHTZabrfPPRXxe4jhtY 2d8AoLc9aMlXbKJwiymC7wtgLHYYRdU7 =fnXz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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