From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 7 13:46:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01238 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:46:30 -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 NAA01227 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:46:27 -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 IAA26531; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:45:53 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807072045.IAA26531@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bjg@otherspace.net Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:45:53 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: DHCP Suppoert Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <199807071832.OAA03649@net3.netacc.net> 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 14:32, Bob wrote: > Greetings. > > Having recenty obtained a cable modem, it would be nice to get this toy > working under FreeBSD. :) The provider uses DHCP, however, and I havn't > seen a peep in the various FreeBSD docs about support for that in FreeBSD. > (I'm currently using 2.2.6-RELEASE ) > > Anyone know anything about that ? Coincidentally, I've answered this question within the past 8 hours. Here's what I said before. It seem that poster solved the problem with the following advice: 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. cheers. -- 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