From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Aug 10 12:02:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07055 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 12:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from millennianet.com (root@millennianet.com [206.71.161.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07050 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 12:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eclipse (dt3h1nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.19.210]) by millennianet.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA29319; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 12:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970810115210.00c71e00@mail.mill.net> X-Sender: matt@mail.mill.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:52:10 -0700 To: Bernie Doehner From: Matt Wilbur Subject: Re: freebsd/dhcp on Cox's cable system. Cc: isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 03:49 PM 8/8/97 -0400, you wrote: > >One of our side projects is to research how to set up a FreeBSD box on >Cox's cable system with a Motorola CATV modem and use DHCP to get the >address from Cox's dhcp server. > >Has anyone on this list done anything like it? I'd like to find out if >wide-dhcp will work out of the box for this application or might require >some retuning. > Bernie, I've been using the wide-dhcp client for about three weeks now with nary a problem, to obtain an address from roadrunner's DHCP server.. One minor caveat is to be patient, it takes nearly a minute sometimes, my impatience led me astray initially.. ;-) Matt /////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Matt Wilbur Support the Anti-Spam amendment Photon Research Associates Join at http://www.cauce.org/