dhclient and ADSL modem trouble...

From: Digital Brain (digitalbrain_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/31/05

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    To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:43:54 +0000

    Hi!

    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".

    I've also used tcpdump to figure out what's going on with dhclient -- all I
    can see is the dhcp requests from my machine and *no* replies whatsoever. As
    if the ISP's DHCP server never received a request.

    The bpf device is included in the kernel config and I don't think it's a NIC
    problem (it works OK when I manually set the IP and ISP gateway). It's also
    not a network cable problem or ADSL modem problem (pls see below).

    Linux machines with dhcpcd and other Windows machines I've tried, all work
    OK and receive a private IP from my ISP. While monitoring the dhcp exchange
    with Ethereal, I can see 1 dhcp request and shortly after a dhcp reply with
    an assigned IP.

    Is there a problem with the particular version of dhclient in FreeBSD 5.3?

    Are there any solutions to this problem (preferably using FBSD-5.3)? 

    ---
Thanks in advance.
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