dhclient and ADSL modem trouble...

[Chuck Swiger]

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