Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:28:22 -0600 From: "Adam Wood" <woodfucius@attbi.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "'John Hansen'" <retailmessiah@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Question about migration from AT&T@home to ATTBI Message-ID: <000701c17f2b$6cdb57c0$0100a8c0@wood>
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>Greetings. I had my dhclient software installed and configured to work with the=20 >att@home service. The only thing that it is set to send is the host-name. >It requests the DNS servers, router, broadcask and netmask information. >As you probably have heard, Att @home, is no longer. Over the wekeend, they=20 >changed over to their new network, Att Broadband. Now that all the lights came=20 >Back up on my General Instrument Surfboard Cable modem, I reboot the machine=20 >to get back online. I found that the dhclient software gets all the necesary information=20 >(based on the dhclient.leases file) but I cannot get online. In other words, it seems to=20 >be working correctly, but I cannot ping anything outside of my box EXCEPT the dns=20 >servers. The only thing that I've heard that has changed is that we are all on dynamic >IP's instead of static ip's. >=20 >I'm basically writing to see if anyone else had any similar problems, and how I might=20 >correct them. >Also, I have a 4 port hub that they are connected through, however at the time=20 >being, no other mahcines are connected to the hub. >-John Hansen Hi John, I recently made the same conversion as you did from @home to attbi. Are you running a firewall of any kind (ipfw, ipf, etc.)? If so, you may want to look at your rules to see if they are the culprit (for example, I had my rules set up to only allow DNS activity to and from the old @home DNS servers, so I could not resolve any host names until I updated those IP addresses to the new attbi ones in my rule set). Hope that helps. P.S. Some tips for posting to the list--First, make sure to put a descriptive subject line in your message, as many people do not read messages with blank subject lines. Also, avoid sending messages in HTML format, as that tends to annoy many list members. Plain text good, HTML bad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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