Bri wrote: > Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which > you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work > successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac > addresses of unix boxes and Apple macs I have and they seem to have alot of > difficulty obtaining IP addresses. Especially the UNIX machines which run > FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE or 5.0-CURRENT on sparc64 at the moment the sparc64 box > which is a Sun Ultra 5 which is the worst for detecting an IP with dhclient. > > What I would really like to know is what does the windows dhcp do > differently than say dhclient. > > I would be very interested to know as I would like a UNIX machine that can > maintain and IP address.
Use the same exact NIC. Often, once the cable company sees a MAC address, it filters all other MAC addresses from getting a lease from your wire. The intent of this is to prevent people grabbing more than one lease simultaneously, or running more than one machine at a time. Ask Julian Elisher. He had exactly this problem with a machine in San Francisco, 2 years ago. Note: If you ask, he will say "Yes, I had exactly this problem"; he won't tell you anything you can do about it, except "Use the same exact NIC", because that's really the only fix. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
