From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 28 7:34:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F81437B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 07:34:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cjsabatier@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0SFakP64809; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:36:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cjsabatier) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3A73E852.21340.222561@localhost> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:36:46 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: seppludwig@isuisse.com Subject: Re: Client DHCP connection to Internet (WAS: freebi question: DH Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Jan-01 seppludwig@isuisse.com wrote: > I've changed the subject line to draw attention to my problem. > > It may seem like a simple problem - but for me it is a basic and > vital problem - after all what use is it if I lose the lease half the > time ??? > > If you need more info - please ask!! I'm using a cable modem myself, with Cox@Home. Here's my /etc/dhclient.conf: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/dhclient.conf,v 1.2 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # # This file is required by the ISC DHCP client. # See ``man 5 dhclient.conf'' for details. # # In most cases an empty file is suffient for most people as the # defaults are usually fine. # interface "fxp0" { send host-name "cx344940-a"; prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; } "fxp0" is my Intel Etherexpress card, "cx344940-a" is the hostname Cox gave me when I signed up, and, since I'm running a local nameserver, I want to make sure it (127.0.0.1) gets listed first in /etc/resolv.conf. The really critical element, I think, is sending your hostname. Hope this helps. -- Conrad Sabatier cjsabatier@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message