Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:26:46 -0000 From: "G D McKee" <freebsd@gdmckee.com> To: "Robert Inder" <R.Inder@ed.ac.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <richard@interactive.co.uk> Subject: Re: Telewest Cable and FreeBSD Message-ID: <013201c08dfe$1a434640$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> References: <00e701c08de1$da46b980$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> <f51ae83wxw4.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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Hi I have found that if I disconnect the cox out of the back of the cable modem and run dhclient ep0, I get an IP address of the DHCP server on the cable modem. Are there any files you want me to send you? Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Inder" <R.Inder@ed.ac.uk> To: "G D McKee" <freebsd@gdmckee.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <richard@interactive.co.uk> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 4:10 PM Subject: Re: Telewest Cable and FreeBSD > > 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" <freebsd@gdmckee.com> 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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