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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