DHCP client not getting IP address from Time Warner

[Barney Wolff]

Power-cycle your cable box, leaving it off for a few minutes.
Cable co's seem to check the MAC, and take a while to forget
the previous one.

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:47:14AM -0800, Ask Bjrn Hansen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> After years with Speakeasy at home I'm trying out Time Warner Cable  
> (we live too far from the CO to get good DSL speeds).
> 
> On OS X I plug-in and get an IP from their DHCP server:
> 
> 	http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/25895/dhcp/dhcp-osx.txt
> 
> On FreeBSD their DHCP server seems to just ignore me (but I see lots  
> of broadcast replies to 255.255.255.255/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff).  I've  
> tried with both the standard dhclient and the isc dhclient from ports.