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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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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