Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:49:31 -0600 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> To: "Robret Schilling" <friction@mediaone.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP problem? Message-ID: <3c95063c5a5e.3c5a5e3c9506@marquette.edu>
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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" <friction@mediaone.net> 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
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