From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 7 05:04:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15685 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 05:04:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15679 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 05:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA24814; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 22:44:04 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807071044.WAA24814@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kevin Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 22:44:03 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: cable modem help (urgent) Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Jul 98, at 18:03, Kevin wrote: > And do i need a DHCP client for my cable modem? > Installed dhcp-1.0pl2 from freebsd's port collection. > But the dhcpd.conf file is kinda complicated to setup, can someone show me > an example? (sorry im too busy,no time to figure it out.:< ) I recently did the same thing for my ADSL connection (via the telephone line). I can't imagine it's much different. Check out the following page: http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/dhcp.html I found it worked first time everytime. BTW: What if everyone was too busy to figure it out? -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com : for race timing solutions To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message