From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 8:10:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451B637B503 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 08:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (sorley [129.215.144.53]) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13222; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:10:19 GMT To: "G D McKee" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@interactive.co.uk Subject: Re: Telewest Cable and FreeBSD References: <00e701c08de1$da46b980$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> From: Robert Inder Phone: (+44) 7808 492 213 (Mobile)/ (+44) 131 650 2756 (AIAI) Organisation: AI Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh Disorganisation: Rampant Date: 03 Feb 2001 16:10:19 +0000 In-Reply-To: "G D McKee"'s message of "Sat, 3 Feb 2001 13:04:11 -0000" Message-ID: Lines: 42 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, the good news is that there is gold at the end of the rainbow: I have had a freeBSD machine taling to a telewest cable modem for a good number of months now, and it does "go". "G D McKee" writes: > Hi > > Got my NIC set-up for DHCP in /etc/rc.conf. When the machine fires up I get > the following error when trying to obtain a DHCP lease. > > kursk# dhclient ep0 > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address I noticed you doing this as a command, so I tried it, so see what message I got. I got no message at all, just a prompt back. Then, about 20 seconds later, the machine re-booted! ((/var/log/messages available if anyone wants to investigate)) > I have no firewall or anything in place. /etc/hosts has ALL:ALL:ALLOW in it > at the top. > Gordon > PS Robert - I was put in contact with you from Richard Tobin. He helped with/did much of the setup on Auk. If there any files you want to look at for you, let me know... Robert. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- __ |_)obert Inder, (http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~robert/) | \ Research Fellow, AIAI, (http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/) University of Edinburgh 80, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN SCOTLAND --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Viewed in Ebriated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message