Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-23 Thread Sean Malloy
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:16:18PM -0800, David Murphy wrote: > --- johan beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok. > > > > When you initially plug in the modem side interface, what does it see? > > Do a basic tcpdump, and watch the traffic for the dhcp assignment. > > > > Secondly, could y

Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread David Murphy
--- johan beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. > > When you initially plug in the modem side interface, what does it see? > Do a basic tcpdump, and watch the traffic for the dhcp assignment. > > Secondly, could you forward your pf.conf? Well now I'm *really* baffled. I read the manpage fo

Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread johan beisser
On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:19 PM, David Murphy wrote: I'd be happy to provide any information requested. I'm quite new to *BSD, but I'm pretty well-versed in Linux, so tell me what you need, and I'll find it. If you need more information about the box than what I gave at the end of my first po

Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread David Murphy
--- johan beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:32 PM, David Murphy wrote: > > > PS: another piece of info I left out is that my modem is a Motorola > > Surfboard SB5120, and my cable ISP is Charter. > > Does charter require PPPoE? No. I don't recall having to do any PPP

Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread bofh
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:32 PM, David Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As stated I've demonstrated that the modem is happy to work with either the > cheapo router or directly with my desktop, and I verified that it sees them > with separate hardware addresses. So it's not hung up on one in p

Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread johan beisser
On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:32 PM, David Murphy wrote: PS: another piece of info I left out is that my modem is a Motorola Surfboard SB5120, and my cable ISP is Charter. Does charter require PPPoE?

Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread David Murphy
--- Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen cases where you can only have one client ethernet address on > your cable modem, and you need to reset everything and give your old > mac address a chance to time out. you might want to: > a) change the external address of your openbsd machin

Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread Predrag Punosevac
David Higgs wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:11 PM, David Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings folks. This week I undertook a project to replace my cheapo home broadband router with an old laptop running OpenBSD. Success appeared to have been achieved, but I've run into a snag in the

Re: DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread David Higgs
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:11 PM, David Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings folks. This week I undertook a project to replace my cheapo home > broadband router with an old laptop running OpenBSD. Success appeared to > have been achieved, but I've run into a snag in the final implementati

DHCP client failure with cable modem

2008-02-22 Thread David Murphy
Greetings folks. This week I undertook a project to replace my cheapo home broadband router with an old laptop running OpenBSD. Success appeared to have been achieved, but I've run into a snag in the final implementation. I set up the OBSD router (more info below) to perform NAT and serve DHCP and