Re: dhclient and ADSL modem trouble...

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 08/31/05

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    Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:04:15 -0400
To: Digital Brain <digitalbrain@hotmail.com>

    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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