Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:25:21 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Dave Uhring" <duhring@charter.net>, "Colin" <cwass99@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Luc Morin" <luc_m@videotron.ca> Subject: Re: Network stops working Message-ID: <016501c08747$9d6a6fc0$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <XFMail.010125210427.cwass99@home.com> <01012520300600.04280@dave>
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That's one thing I didn't try, leaving it off for a full minute, but I did wait for about 30 seconds. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Uhring" <duhring@charter.net> To: "Colin" <cwass99@home.com>; "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Luc Morin" <luc_m@videotron.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:30 PM Subject: Re: Network stops working > If his cable modem is similar to mine, it recognizes only one NIC and > must be power cycled in order to attach a different NIC. After killing > dhclient and restarting it, he will also receive a different IP address > from his ISP. The important thing is to kill the power to the cable > modem for at least 1 minute then power it back up again. > > Dave > > > On Thursday 25 January 2001 20:04, Colin wrote: > > The DHCP server has to keep a record of the lease or there will be > > all kinds of interesting problems. The server will see the mac > > address of the client in the DHCP-DISCOVER, and if it has a record of > > a valid, non-expired lease, it will send that information to the > > requesting client. I haven't done a lot of (ok, any :)) work with the > > BSD DHCP client, but there should be a command parameter or signal or > > something that says "please tell the server to expire my existing > > address" (on your Win box, AFAIR it's ipconfig -release) and from > > there you should be able to get a valid address. Your only other > > options are leaving the BSD box off the network for the duration of > > it's lease (could be a week or more) or calling the ISP and saying > > "Please kill the entry for my machine, IP 24.200.211.9, from the DHCP > > servers ..cur file" which they will probably be more than a little > > hesitant to do. I'm guessing the ISP has recently renumbered the > > network (I know my cable-modem based provider has been doing that a > > lot recently) and the Win box was not connected before it's lease > > expired. > > This all assumes that the Win box and BSD box are in fact > > seperate, not a dual boot system. If it is a dual boot system, the > > ISP's DHCP server has issues, as it should not issue 2 seperate > > addresses for the same mac address. > > > > Cheers, > > Colin Wass > > > > On 25-Jan-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > Are both os's on the same machine? A friend of mine had this > > > problem, had the cable modem plugged into the 98 workstation. then > > > when we connected it to the freebsd workstation it wouldn't get a > > > lease. Apparently the dhcp server keeps a record of the mac > > > address. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Luc Morin" <luc_m@videotron.ca> > > > To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 5:28 PM > > > Subject: Re: Network stops working > > > > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> here's something interesting. > > >> > > >> I noticed that under Win98, the DHCP server will assign me > > >> 24.201.143.157, and under FreeBSD it will assign 24.200.211.9 > > >> > > >> How come ? Could this be a lead as to what's going on ? > > >> > > >> The one thing that bugs me most with this problem is that > > >> I have no problem under Windows. I'd rather it be the other > > >> way around :-) > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> > > >> Luc Morin > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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