Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 02:09:29 -0400 From: Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com> To: Chris Singer <csinger@uvic.ca>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Using a Cable modem under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990803020929.A25317@semiotek.com> In-Reply-To: <01BEDC49.A0FCD4C0@24.66.184.28.bc.wave.home.com>; from Chris Singer on Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 06:13:59PM -0700 References: <01BEDC49.A0FCD4C0@24.66.184.28.bc.wave.home.com>
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I notice the .ca email address, so maybe you have Rogers Wave like I
do here in Toronto. If so:
1) they're actually giving out static IPs even though they claim
you need DHCP. So if you can somehow learn your IP, you can
just set it. They may change your IP at some point, but only
if they decide to renumber your whole network--this likely
won't happen more than once or twice (it will happen if they
decide they've allocated too few or too many IPs in your area).
In my case the IP was printed on a sheet of paper they gave me.
If worst comes to worst, you could probably use a lesser OS to
run their install kit and grab your IP out of some window.
2) if you use isc-dhcp under FreeBSD with rogers wave, the trick
is to put this line in your dhcp config file:
send dhcp-client-identifier "XXX";
where XXX is your client hostname (probably a bunch of letters
and numbers). It appears that dhcp uses this information to
figure out which dhcp reply is intended for you; I'm not sure.
I wasn't ever able to get wide-dhcp working, presumably because
I wasn't able to find a place to specify my dhcp-client-identifier
in that dhcp client.
Hope this helps,
Justin
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 06:13:59PM -0700, Chris Singer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows how to setup FreeBSD to use a cable modem? I'm running FreeBSD version 3.0 at this time and want to upgrade but I need to get the cable modem running in order to do so. Thank you all.
>
> Chris Singer
>
>
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