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From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org>
To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk, "Jeremy Cooper" <jmcoop5@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: DHCP not getting IP
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:30:17 -0600
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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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