From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 31 5:55:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mailbox.mcs.net (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A259F14CBE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 05:55:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tforrest@Mailbox.mcs.net) Received: (from tforrest@localhost) by Mailbox.mcs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA17617; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 07:55:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tforrest) Message-Id: <199910311355.HAA17617@Mailbox.mcs.net> From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:55:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: DHCP Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy everyone. Learning a lot here. Making great progress on my first FBSD box. Alas, I have another question. When I first started this box up it had no problems getting a DHCP address from my cable modem provider (rr.com). For some reason now the system refuses to get a DHCP addy. I can plug a static address in and it works fine (until the DHCP server gives out my address to someone else). I know there is nothing wrong with the cable modem as I can get leases from it using my wintendo box. the command i use in rc.conf is "ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" also when i use /stand/sysinstall and goto the network setup it asks if i want to obtain a DHCP lease, i tell it yes and nothing comes back to fill in the blanks. Ideas on how to correct? thanks. Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: If the shoe fits, buy it.----Imelda Marcos PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 5762 A3CC 8EA5 8542 9666 222B 61A9 2558 ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message