From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 24 23:27:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (ftp.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6980F37B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id nxvsaaaa for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:35:28 +1100 Message-ID: <3A6FD545.3D329446@quake.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:27:01 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jtm63@enteract.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network stops working References: <001001c08628$8db16180$9d8fc918@videotron.ca> <20010124164125.A12612@home.com> <01012500480800.01077@jamestown.enteract.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James McNaughton wrote: > > I have experienced a similar issue with my cable modem service. Look at > this from /var/log/messages: > > Jan 23 14:20:56 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:20:78:d0:28:12 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! > Jan 23 14:20:56 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:20:78:d0:28:12 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! > > Jan 24 21:39:25 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:50:8b:aa:68:a9 is using > my IP address 24.148.62.76! > > What you need to know first is: > > Do you have a static IP address or is the ISP using DHCP? Set your > configuration accordingly. See Section 17.8 DHCP of the FreeBSD > Handbook for help on DHCP. > It's really simple. > > Are you getting messages like I am above? This could be a sign of a > misconfigured NIC. From what they said in the original post it looks like they were behind a gateway for internet access... So I dont think this is a DHCP with cable issue, BUT they also seemed to be using DHCP internally on there lan, so it could still be a DHCP problem... Since it works again after a reboot (which would get fresh DHCP info) it seems likely that its the case... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message