[olug] dhclient and Cox dhcp

[Nate Rotschafer]

I have an openbsd mirror on my site that has ipf included if you are 
interested in a network install...

Thanks,
Nate


>From: ktb <xyf at nixnotes.org>
>Reply-To: olug at olug.org
>To: olug at olug.org
>Subject: Re: [olug] dhclient and Cox dhcp
>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:27:10 -0500
>
>On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:15:48AM -0500, 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.
> >
>
>It has been a while since I had Cox but IIRC I just tweaked
>/etc/dhclient.conf
>
>I had to add the 'machine name' or whatever Cox called it to the config
>file initially.  That may have been just for the switchover.
>
>If you can't get it to work I would just install OpenBSD via network
>with a floppy.  Through the installation process the networking will be
>configured.
>hth,
>kent
>
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Nate Rotschafer
Millard West High School
Omaha, NE


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