christos astron.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
> In article <200610220317.k9M3HLuR004127bigbox.wan.vpn>,
> Paul Newhouse <newhouserockhead.com> wrote:
> >My old cable modem seized up and died a while back
and
> >Comcast replace it with an RC DCM425c. I hooked
it up
> >to an XP system (doctor says I'll recover after a
while ;)
> >and entered the account number and got the thing
configured
> >... I think?
> >
> >Then I did the same thing I used to do with the
old modem:
> >I powered if off and connected it to my NetBSD
system (3.0.1).
> >When I run dhclient <cable interface> it
doesn't get connected.
> >I can run tcpdump -i <cable interface> and
see lots of arp traffic
> >going by so I think the equipment is working but,
I keep getting
> >this in /var/log/messages:
> >
> >Oct 21 18:27:42 bigbox dhclient: No working leases
in persistent
> >database - sleeping.
> >...
> >Oct 21 18:35:59 bigbox dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS
received.
> >Oct 21 18:35:59 bigbox dhclient: No working leases
in persistent
> >database - sleeping.
> >
> >
> >ifconfig of <cable interface> shows:
> >
> >: ifconfig tlp1
> >tlp1:
>
>flags=8b43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMP
LEX,MULTICAST> mtu
> >1500
> > address: 00:a0:cc:3a:d9:52
> > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
full-duplex)
> > status: active
> > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast
255.255.255.255
> > inet6 fe80::2a0:ccff:fe3a:d952%tlp1
prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
> >
> >I have a DSL line that should be my default route
but, I changed the
> >default to 0.0.0.0 and started up dhclient. It
still doesn't want to
> >connect.
> >
> >Can anybody tell me where I'm going wrong with
this??
>
> try tcpdump -vv -s 1500 -i tlp1 port bootpc or port
bootps
Thanks that eliminates the noise. I decided to reboot the
firewall
to clean up any loose ends. Now I get:
# dhclient tlp1
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc11
Copyright 1995-2002 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/p
roducts/DHCP
Listening on BPF/tlp1/00:a0:cc:3a:d9:52
Sending on BPF/tlp1/00:a0:cc:3a:d9:52
Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use
Please make sure there is no other dhcp server
running and that there's no entry for dhcp or
bootp in /etc/inetd.conf. Also make sure you
are not running HP JetAdmin software, which
includes a bootp server.
If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
requesting help.
If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
If you intend to request help from the dhcp-serverisc.org
mailing list, please read the section on the README about
submitting bug reports and requests for help.
Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
help directly to the authors of this software - please
send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
the README file.
exiting.
bigbox# ps -auwx|grep dhc
root 480 0.0 0.0 256 4 ttyp2 R+ 9:45PM 0:00.00
grep dhc (ksh)
bigbox# nr
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use
Mtu Interface
0/8 link#3 UC 0 0
- tlp1 =>
default 209.128.91.41 UGS 9 793
- tlp0
127/8 127.0.0.1 UGRS 0 0
33192 lo0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 10
33192 lo0
172.16.89/24 link#2 UC 1 0
- re0
172.16.89.42 00:40:05:36:73:53 UHLc 5 1155
- re0
209.128.91.40/29 link#1 UC 1 0
- tlp0
209.128.91.41 00:00:c5:97:fd:c8 UHLc 1 0
- tlp0
I'm not running a dhcp server or a boot server, so now I'm
even more confused.
Paul
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