From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 26 00:10:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A3716A403 for ; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from calvins@csts.org) Received: from csts1.csts.org (c-71-197-220-138.hsd1.or.comcast.net [71.197.220.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B235A13C47C for ; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:10:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from calvins@csts.org) Received: (qmail 3911 invoked from network); 25 Dec 2006 23:50:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ces) (192.168.1.151) by csts1.csts.org with SMTP; 25 Dec 2006 23:50:45 -0000 From: "Calvin Smith" To: "'Doug Hardie'" Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:44:06 -0800 Organization: CS Technical Services Message-ID: <00f001c7287e$94287c20$9701a8c0@ces> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <21DCB01C-C4BB-4C4F-A189-F8D3A1BFE697@lafn.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems running dhclient on 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:10:33 -0000 Thanks for the response. That has fixed the problem. -----Original Message----- From: Doug Hardie [mailto:bc979@lafn.org] Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 2:09 PM To: calvins@csts.org Subject: Re: Problems running dhclient on 6.1 On Dec 25, 2006, at 13:06, Calvin Smith wrote: > I just built a new system as a firewall using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE- > p11, IP > Filter V4.1.8 and am getting "No DHCPOFFERS received". I am > connected to the > internet via Comcast broadband. My old system running FreeBSD 4.6- > RELEASE > and IP Filter V 3.4.29 works just fine. I plugged my external > network port > into the internal network to see if I could get an assigned ip > using my > internal dhcp server and this worked just fine. When I try to use the > external connection to Comcast via the cable modem I receive no > replys to my > dhcp requests. I have tried swapping out different net cards with > the same > problem. There is probably something simple I am missing, but I > can't see > it at this time. Any help would be appreciated. You may need to reset the Cable Modem. Power it off for 5 minutes to clear its memory of the original computer MAC address.