From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 10:15:48 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 BFCD437B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED67643FBF for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:15:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h18IH4T5075390; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 13:17:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E454939.5080700@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:15:21 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian H Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connecting to my isp References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Brian H wrote: > I am trying to switch my router from Linux Router Project to FBSD 4.7 > because i think i can get more functionality with bsd :) I am running > into a problem with getting it connected to my isp. > > i have a cable connection and the way that the LRP connection is through > dhcp. it uses the mac address as a means to authenticate. What do you mean? Do you mean that your ISP will only give you an IP if your MAC is registered? Is your MAC on this machine registered? > What turn on > "DHCP" in /stand/sysinstall configure networking menu. When it asks you if you want to use DHCP and you say 'yes'. > It just hung > there for a while and then returned no information from the dhcp server. During installation? Or are you doing post-config? Can you ALT+F4 (I think it's F4, might be F3) and see any errors wrt DHCP? > Is there anything i can do to just get connnected to my isp? This has worked fine every time I've done it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message