From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 6:49:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postmarq.mu.edu (hermes.mu.edu [134.48.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A4437B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 06:49:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from marquette.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by postmarq.mu.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G4OUIJ00.L6L; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:49:31 -0600 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten To: "Robret Schilling" , questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3c95063c5a5e.3c5a5e3c9506@marquette.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:49:31 -0600 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: DHCP problem? X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This question comes up every so often. I think the last time was about a month ago. I remember someone saying that you have to inform your cable modem provider with the MAC address of your external card, so that they can add it to their database. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robret Schilling" Date: Sunday, November 26, 2000 9:26 pm Subject: DHCP problem? > Hi everyone, > > > A weeks ago I installed the newest release (4.1 I think) and have > had some wierd happenings since. I have a box with 2 nics. One for > internal traffic and one for the external. The external nic is > connected to a cable modem which has a dynamically assigned IP > (nothing special, dhclient seems to work fine), and the internal > is a static (192.168.100.XXX). I have the setup working, but it > seems that every so often I have to "reset" the external nic by > either A. running dhclient on the device again (ed0) or B. doing > an ifconfig ed0 IP_ADDR. either one gets be up and running for an > unknown amount of time. sometimes it will be 5 seconds, sometimes > days. This is becoming very frustrating. I have tried natd with > the -dynamic flag, and I did upgrade to the latest stable and the > problem still persists. Any help on this is appreciated. Thanks in > advance. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message