[Gllug] ADSL (and DHCP) woes

[chris.wareham at btopenworld.com]

Tethys <tet at accucard.com> wrote:
> 
> You don't mention what your network configuration is under NetBSD,
> only that it's different from Windows. In what way is it different?
> Are you getting an IP via DHCP at all? Have you tried manually
> configuring your NetBSD box to have the IP address that was
> dynamically assigned to the Windows box?
> 

I was a litle bit unclear there! I meant that the NetBSD box doesn't get the ISP assigned public address, but a non-assigned one (192.168.0.2) from the modem. The Windows box gets the ISP assigned one ... I tried disconnecting the Windows machine, configuring the NetBSD one with the same address, gateway DNS server, etc. and then plugging it in. To my increased frustration and confusion it still didn't work.

> >So has anyone used this ethernet modem with Linux? I'm at a loss as to
> >what to do. I don't want to dual home a Windows machine and stick my
> >network behind that ...
> 
> No need to resort to such drastic measures... Have you tried firing up
> tpcdump and/or ethereal to see what the router is trying to do in the
> way of DHCP?
> 

I'm going away for New Years Eve very soon, but I'll bite the bullet and look at tcpdump output when I get back. By the way, is ethereal a better option for diagnosing DHCP problems?

Chris

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