Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:30:17 -0600 From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk, "Jeremy Cooper" <jmcoop5@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP not getting IP Message-ID: <200110281530.f9SFUIs06175@c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com> In-Reply-To: <4a6mttkdflpqrl4qkkrmi5vp4kmu6ornq6@4ax.com> References: <F233vvQ0Puz63Bma4RC00005fb8@hotmail.com> <4a6mttkdflpqrl4qkkrmi5vp4kmu6ornq6@4ax.com>
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On Saturday 27 October 2001 02:34 pm, John Murphy, or somone very much like
John Murphy, wrote:
> "Jeremy Cooper" <jmcoop5@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I have been trying to set up my first freebsd box using dhcp. I have
> > tried a few things but I am unable to get an IP address
> >from my ISP, Starpower via cable modem. I have tried a few things but I
> > am stuck right now. Does anyone have any
> >suggestions.
>
> I use a cable modem with an ISP that requires the MAC (ether) address
> of the NIC is registered with them. Perhaps Starpower is similar.
>
>
@home cable requires your customer ID to be sent, but doesn't care about your
MAC address.
Try putting something like this in /etc/dhclinet.conf:
interface "dc0" {
send host-name "<your customer id here>";
append domain-name-servers 206.71.80.2;
}
(you also will most likely need to change the interface name as
appropriate....)
the append domain-name-servers line isn't strictly necessary in this setup,
but as @home is notorious for DNS outages, and the dhclient scripts rewrite
/etc/resolv.conf every time it runs based on the information recieved, that's
the only place to make a permanent addition.
mike
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