From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 11: 0:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ra.upan.org (ra.upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FD437B446 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Received: from ocsinternet.com (thoth.upan.org [204.107.76.16]) by ra.upan.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f39HxhZ52080; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:59:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Message-ID: <3AD1FA8A.40458837@ocsinternet.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 14:08:10 -0400 From: Mikel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anis Badri Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DSL with earthlink in LA using ivasions winPoet References: <20010409172103.49941.qmail@web12304.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG have you added any system infor to your dhclient.conf?

In a few situations that I run accross (mostly cheap & crapy cable providers) you'll need atleast the following to support DHCP properly...

inside /etc/dhclient.conf

interface "fxp0" {
    send host-name "bassale";
    send dhcp-client-indentifier 00:d0:b7:e6:fd:11;
    request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
            domain-name, dmoain-name-servers, host-name;
    require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
}

Please bear in mind that you will need to use your own interface identifier, hostname and MAC address to make this work. If the site is indeed runnig DHCP then you should be good..

Cheers,
Mikel

Anis Badri wrote:

I have been trying for several months to establish an internet connection via earthlink DSL (DHCP) using my freeBsd box with no success. They (earthlink) do not provide for any OS other than win95/98. They use Ivasion's winpeot software package to establish a PPP link. I have gone through several onlines docs to try to estabish a ppp connection with dhcp and nothing has worked. If someone has had the same experience with PPP and DHCP on DSL can you please send me resources on how to go about setting up an internet connection. WinPoet has virtually no documentation on implementation details.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Anis Tayebali

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