Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:27:37 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: Ask =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Hansen <ask@develooper.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP client not getting IP address from Time Warner Message-ID: <20091103162737.GA93090@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <36028DC7-4A90-4680-83ED-301FBE15F09C@develooper.com> References: <36028DC7-4A90-4680-83ED-301FBE15F09C@develooper.com>
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Power-cycle your cable box, leaving it off for a few minutes. Cable co's seem to check the MAC, and take a while to forget the previous one. On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:47:14AM -0800, Ask Bjrn Hansen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > After years with Speakeasy at home I'm trying out Time Warner Cable > (we live too far from the CO to get good DSL speeds). > > On OS X I plug-in and get an IP from their DHCP server: > > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/25895/dhcp/dhcp-osx.txt > > On FreeBSD their DHCP server seems to just ignore me (but I see lots > of broadcast replies to 255.255.255.255/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff). I've > tried with both the standard dhclient and the isc dhclient from ports.
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