[olug] dhclient and Cox dhcp

[David Walker]

Try resetting your cable modem.  I have heard that they remember MAC addresses 
and using a different network card than before may cause problems that 
resetting the cable modem resolves.

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 11:15 am, kaygee wrote:
> Does anyone no what kind of fatted calf I have to kill to get OpenBSD's
> dhclient to grab an ip from Cox's dhcp servers?
>
> I tried the -r flag thinking maybe they were using obsolete RFC1531 (or
> thereabouts) but the DHCP_DISCOVER requests just keep timing out.
>
> I know I did this with dhcpcd before on RedHat but I decided to replace my
> firewall with OBSD and it's kind of essential that it be able to get an
> ip since it also does NAT for the rest of the network.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Keith
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