Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:04:15 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Digital Brain <digitalbrain@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient and ADSL modem trouble... Message-ID: <4315C6EF.1020200@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY101-F289A555A64405A128CE1B1C3A10@phx.gbl> References: <BAY101-F289A555A64405A128CE1B1C3A10@phx.gbl>
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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
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