In article <200610220450.k9M4ocx4008811 rockhead.com>,
Paul Newhouse <newhouserockhead.com> wrote:
>
> christosastron.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
what does fstat | grep :68 say?
christos
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