From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 8:55: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha2.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9939915037 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpeters2@home.com) Received: from stealth ([24.4.115.203]) by news.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990927155505.SIPA13734.news.rdc1.tn.home.com@stealth>; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:55:05 -0700 From: "Charles A. Peters" To: "Dan Bongert" , Subject: RE: getting @home to work with FreeBSD Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:24:36 -0400 Message-ID: <000501bf0904$ca6fb1a0$0700a8c0@stealth.xxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know that this does not answer your question, but I have @home service, 3 static IP addresses, and several machines connected to the internet via a dual-hommed gateway. I find that it is convenient to be able to have a static address in the event that I need to telnet or pcanywhere into one of my boxes from another location. You can request a static ip address for no additional cost from the @home people. Charles cpeters2@home.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dan Bongert > Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 11:34 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: getting @home to work with FreeBSD > > > I'm a new user of FreeBSD (convert from Linux), and installed > 3.3-RELEASE last week. I'm a @home subscriber, and am attempting to get > FreeBSD working with DHCP. > > I found a couple of web sites detailing how to set it up, but can't get > it to work. No matter what I try (detailed dhclient.conf, > empty dhclient.conf, dhclient.conf with only send "hostname-a") I can't > seem to find the DHCP server. It looks like the DHCP client broadcasts, > but doesn't find anything. > > Assuming I have a static IP address, and manually filling in the IP > address, DNS, gateway, etc, works fine, but I hear that @home is going > to start decreasing the lease time, and making their service more > dynamic. > > I just saw a couple of people mention that they used @home, so I > thought I'd ask. > > -- > Dan Bongert dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu > SSCC Unix System Administrator (608) 262-9857 > > > 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