From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 15:04:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE4516A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:04:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C235943D46 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:04:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398D55F6B; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:04:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35615-02; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:04:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-79-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.79.217]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A000C5F4C; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:04:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4315C6EF.1020200@mac.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:04:15 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Digital Brain References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient and ADSL modem trouble... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:04:18 -0000 Digital Brain wrote: > I'm setting up a gateway server on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE but I'm having > problems getting FreeBSD to work with my ADSL modem (provided by ISP, no > documentation, nothing on the net :-( ). > > The problem is I'm trying to get my private IP via "dhclient -v ed0" and > all I observe is > a series of "DHCPDISCOVER on ed0 to xxxxxx port 67 interval x" and in > the end a > message saying "No DHCPOFFER received". You probably need to include a hostname with your DHCP request (update /etc/dhclient.conf. For some reason, some ISPs require that before granting a lease... -- -Chuck