Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:27:34 -0500 From: "MrBoboo" <mrboboo@home.com> To: "newbie @ freebsd" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DHCP servers, or getting online with cable modem Message-ID: <000901c01303$c8ebcc60$0200a8c0@mesqt1.tx.home.com> References: <000a01c0108a$b31fa260$0200a8c0@mesqt1.tx.home.com> <001201c012eb$4624b840$0100000a@johnny5>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] THANK YOU SO MUCH--->John Telford, i was up and running in 3 mins, not including reboot anyone on the @Home service??? use this site, it worked like a freakin charm (also, there is a LOT of crap in the /etc/rc.conf file, i just deleted most of the crap that /stand/sysinstall had put in there to make things clearer) i added the info, saved, rebooted, tried dhclient r10, it didnt work, i had the device name wrong, make sure that you have your device name correct (for anyone trying this), my device was a rl0 and not r10 (it was an L instead of a 1), changed it ran the dhclient rl0 and it was online, THANK YOU SO MUCH Rob Wideman ps, now i just gotta configure it as a router for my win98se machine, hehe ----- Original Message ----- From: John Telford To: MrBoboo ; newbie @ freebsd Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:32 PM Subject: Re: DHCP servers, or getting online with cable modem Try this link, worked like a charm for me, I only had trouble with named (it went rouge and chewed up all the CPU% when trying resolve). and had to turn it off and just use the @home DNS. http://www.freebsddiary.org/athome.html ----- Original Message ----- From: MrBoboo To: newbie @ freebsd Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 8:55 PM Subject: DHCP servers, or getting online with cable modem question i cant get freebsd to work with DHCP, the only way i can get it online is to set it to a static IP i will go into /stand/sysinstall, and select my NIC, it asks to search for DHCP servers i say yes, then a bunch of kernal lines come up then i do a control-C, it then goes into the NIC config screen, everything is filled out correctly, it finds the server, then it has my comp name, then my complete online address, then my DNS servers and gateway info, it pulls up my default subnet mask, then i say ok, then it asks to bring it up, i select yes, then i cant browse or ping any site, i reboot still not online (no pinging any sites work nor browsing), but if i set it to static everything is ok, (I DONT HAVE A STATIC IP, IT IS A LEASED IP FOR 1 WEEK) how do i fix this rob wideman mrboboo@home.com [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3105.105" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>THANK YOU SO MUCH--->John Telford, i was up and running in 3 mins, not including reboot</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>anyone on the @Home service??? use this site, it worked like a freakin charm (also, there is a LOT of crap in the /etc/rc.conf file, i just deleted most of the crap that /stand/sysinstall had put in there to make things clearer) </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i added the info, saved, rebooted, tried dhclient r10, it didnt work, i had the device name wrong, make sure that you have your device name correct (for anyone trying this), my device was a rl0 and not r10 (it was an L instead of a 1), changed it ran the dhclient rl0 and it was online, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>THANK YOU SO MUCH</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Wideman</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ps, now i just gotta configure it as a router for my win98se machine, hehe</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:j.telford@sympatico.ca" title=j.telford@sympatico.ca>John Telford</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:mrboboo@home.com" title=mrboboo@home.com>MrBoboo</A> ; <A href="mailto:freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" title=freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>newbie @ freebsd</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:32 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: DHCP servers, or getting online with cable modem</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Try this link, worked like a charm for me, I only had trouble with named (it went rouge and chewed up all the CPU% when trying resolve). and had to turn it off and just use the @home DNS. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <A href="http://www.freebsddiary.org/athome.html">http://www.freebsddiary.org/athome.html</A></FONT></DIV>; <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:mrboboo@home.com" title=mrboboo@home.com>MrBoboo</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" title=freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>newbie @ freebsd</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 27, 2000 8:55 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> DHCP servers, or getting online with cable modem</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800080 face="MS Sans Serif" size=2> <P>question</P> <P>i cant get freebsd to work with DHCP, the only way i can get it online is to set it to a static IP</P> <P>i will go into /stand/sysinstall, and select my NIC, it asks to search for DHCP servers i say yes, then a bunch of kernal lines come up</P> <P>then i do a control-C, it then goes into the NIC config screen, everything is filled out correctly, it finds the server, then it has my comp name, then my complete online address, then my DNS servers and gateway info, <FONT color=#000000 face=Arial>it pulls up my default subnet mask, then i say ok, then it asks to bring it up, i select yes, </FONT></P> <P><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial>then i cant browse or ping any site, i reboot</FONT></P> <P><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial>still not online (no pinging any sites work nor browsing), </FONT></P> <P><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial>but if i set it to static everything is ok, (I DONT HAVE A STATIC IP, IT IS A LEASED IP FOR 1 WEEK)</FONT></P> <P><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial>how do i fix this</FONT></P> <P><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial>rob wideman</FONT></P> <P><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial>mrboboo@home.com</FONT></P></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>help
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