From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 13:31:40 2003 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 03FBA37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC3143F9B for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:31:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <200302022131370010087gkke>; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:31:37 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9D648463; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:33:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Juhani Reissell" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 16:33:22 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <200301282231.h0SMVip26821@sirppi.helsinki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: dhclient scwewiness Message-Id: <20030202213336.0B9D648463@wastegate.net> 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 On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 00:31:44 +0200 (EET), Juhani Reissell wrote: >Ok, got a new cable modem. Pretty good so far. Now, I just need to get >the DHCP client working. Haven't gotten too lucky with that so far. > >First, I just put the line >ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" >in rc.conf. > >That did something. Resolv.conf looked good and the leases file in >/var/db looked tremendous. But routing didn't work. Couldn't ping >anything: nameservers, the supposed default routers or anything. > >Then, to get something in the log files, I tried starting the dhclient >manually. Now, I see this: >mursu dhclient: New Network Number: 213.243.154.0 >mursu dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 213.243.155.255 >mursu dhclient: New IP Address (xl0): 213.243.155.19 >mursu dhclient: New Subnet Mask (xl0): 255.255.254.0 >mursu dhclient: New Broadcast Address (xl0):213.243.155.255 >mursu dhclient: New Routers: 213.243.154.1 >in /var/log/messages. I don't know who your Cable provider is; however, I use AT&T boardband. I know you have to register your NIC if you change NICs (ie update the MAC address). I am pretty sure they do this with the MAC address on the cable modem as well. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message