Date: 03 Jan 2000 03:01:50 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: @home cable modem installation using dhcp on freebsd Message-ID: <87puvjy45t.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> In-Reply-To: Daniel L Quigley-Skillin's message of "Mon, 3 Jan 2000 02:48:04 -0500" References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001030232530.6806-100000@totalconnect.net>
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Daniel L Quigley-Skillin <dskillin@totalconnect.net> writes: > @Home actually needs the host name of the machine to issue it an IP > address. I tried to get this information a couple of days ago to help out, > but you know how things go. :/ > > >From here you have two options. > > First: Find out your stack info and set the stack static. <--- My > favorite option as @Home doesn't switch your IP very often, in fact, my IP > has never changed in 3 years. > > Second: Invoke dhcp using the -h flag. Similar to this. > > /sbin/dhcpcd -h CRxxxxxx-A -c /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdhcpc-done eth0 I didn't know dhcpcd was ported to FreeBSD. In any case, my stock 3.4-R system doesn't have it, and it is not in ports. I'd assume that the original poster's system doesn't have it either. > CRxxxxxx-A being your propper host name, given by @Home. Your script > locations may vary, but you get the main point of it. A correction -- client ID, not host name. @home's hostnames are in form crxxx.wave.tor.on.home.com, while client ids are in form that you quoted. > You should be able to get your host name and or stack info from the member > services page in the @Home content. > > I'd only use the dhcp option if you really feel you have to. @Home DHCP > servers are know to die. I've heard about this too. Although, in my 4 months with @home I've never had problems with their dhcp servers. In any case, if dhclient cannot obtain a lease from a server, it automatically tries to fall back to last IP that it had before -- pretty fail-safe feature. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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