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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:02:01 -0600
From:      "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com>
To:        "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: isp connection woes
Message-ID:  <OE33ntGWIxd3SiSkCs8000039ff@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE64KnD7zoJDpz1Pjzc000015c9@hotmail.com> <3E5B9189.1060300@potentialtech.com>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To: "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com>
Cc: "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: isp connection woes


> Brian Henning wrote:
> > I have ATTBI for an isp, someone told me that the IP TTL is expiring on the
way
> > to the server.  Their network design supports no more than 16 hops on the
way to
> > a DHCP server,
> > but increasing the (hard-coded) TTL
> > (at line 159 in /usr/src/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/packet.c) can help fix the
> > problem.
> > I would like to manually try to connect to my isp before i try changing the
code
> > for DHCP.
> > I got my network info from my lrp operating system. I would like to switch
that
> > to bsd.
> > can i use traceroute to find out the number of hops i am currently taking to
get
> > to my isp's dhcp server?
>
> Don't see why not, assuming:
> 1) The DHCP server returns icmp echo requests
> 2) You know the IP of the DHCP server
>
> > manual configuration
> > --------------------
> > ifconfig_rl0="inet 66.41.139.87 netmask 255.255.248.0"    #66.41.139.87/21
> > ifconfig_rl1="inet 192.168.1.254 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> >
> > default_router="66.41.136.1 rl0"
>
> This should be:
> defaultrouter="66.41.136.1"
>
> > default_router="192.168.1.254 rl1"
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is wrong.  Don't put that in.
>
> > domain the-matrix.net
> > nameserver 63.240.76.19
> > nameserver 204.127.198.19
>
> This goes in your /etc/resolv.conf
>
> > is there anything else i need to manually connect to my isp?
>
> As long as they allow the use of that IP, no.  You should be
> good to go.
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com
>

Bill,

Why do i not need to have two default routes, I have 2 networks? I am sure you
are correct, I guess i just don't understand why. is there a way i can find out
the ip addr of my dhcp server?
does this even work: default_router="192.168.1.254 rl1"
Thanks again for the help,
Brian



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