From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 9: 5:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46CC037B400 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:05:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g21H50O03560 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200203011705.g21H50O03560@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: using dhcp on a laptop that normally has its own name & IP From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:05:00 -0500 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 My laptop is normally plugged in here at my desk, with a well-defined and permanent name & IP. I also have a second kernel, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/hosts for when I need to use ppp at home. The library at our mane campus has laptop sockets which use DHCP. I tried to use this, with very limited success. I brought down fxp0 with ifconfig, and then used /stand/sysinstall to do a dhcp network configuration. It successfuly pick up an IP address, but I couldn't do anything more than ping (so it found the nameservers, too). Any attempt to use telnet, the web, ftp, or hit a mailserver just plain failed. What else do I need to know to do this? thanks hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message