From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 10:26:35 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 0AF6C37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:26:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop015.verizon.net (pop015pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E7343FA3 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:26:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.42.238]) by pop015.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030208182632.VEWS7113.pop015.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:26:32 -0600 Message-ID: <3E454BCD.5050806@mac.com> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:26:21 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connecting to my isp References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop015.verizon.net from [129.44.42.238] at Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:26:32 -0600 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. Was this working under the LRP? Or has your MAC address changed? > 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 turn on > "DHCP" in /stand/sysinstall configure networking menu. It just hung > there for a while and then returned no information from the dhcp server. Hmm. Some ISPs want you to authenticate before they'll give you a DHCP lease by requesting a specific hostname, or some other DHCP option. Or try to wheedle a static IP out of your ISP if they can't help you connect to their DHCP server under FreeBSD. :-) -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message