Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:27:01 +1100 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: jtm63@enteract.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network stops working Message-ID: <3A6FD545.3D329446@quake.com.au> References: <001001c08628$8db16180$9d8fc918@videotron.ca> <20010124164125.A12612@home.com> <01012500480800.01077@jamestown.enteract.com>
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James McNaughton wrote: > > I have experienced a similar issue with my cable modem service. Look at > this from /var/log/messages: > > Jan 23 14:20:56 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:20:78:d0:28:12 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! > Jan 23 14:20:56 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:20:78:d0:28:12 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! > <snip> > Jan 24 21:39:25 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:50:8b:aa:68:a9 is using > my IP address 24.148.62.76! > > What you need to know first is: > > Do you have a static IP address or is the ISP using DHCP? Set your > configuration accordingly. See Section 17.8 DHCP of the FreeBSD > Handbook <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/dhcp.html>; for help on DHCP. > It's really simple. > > Are you getting messages like I am above? This could be a sign of a > misconfigured NIC. From what they said in the original post it looks like they were behind a gateway for internet access... So I dont think this is a DHCP with cable issue, BUT they also seemed to be using DHCP internally on there lan, so it could still be a DHCP problem... Since it works again after a reboot (which would get fresh DHCP info) it seems likely that its the case... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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