From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 11:15:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14113 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:15:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA14107 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:15:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 15442 invoked from network); 8 Feb 1999 19:15:44 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 1999 19:15:44 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990208111155.00c6ec30@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:15:41 -0800 To: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" , From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Cable Modem Cc: In-Reply-To: <00e901be538b$d5c54f30$efd992d1@p09.aecinfo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:52 AM 2/8/99 , Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: >as an addendum, i have a hypothesis which is untried (i have to wait until >my colleague Ed tries this from home, but if you think it won;t work or >there is a better suggestion, please let me know). > >If we connect the box via win95 and run winipcfg, will it report the >dynamically assigned IP, gateway, and netmask? Are you asking, or stating? Anyways, if it's all dynamically assigned, then you need to get a DHCP client for your FreeBSD machine. visit http://www.freebsd.org/ports/net.html for a DHCP client and http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/index.htm for information on setting one up. >>I was wondering if anyone has had much success connecting via the so-called >>"cable modem". Tons of people. >>The IP is relatively static, however finding the gateway and netmask is >>being quite the chore. By "relatively static" I assume it moves every few days/hours/weeks or so.. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 ( ludwigp@email.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message