Re: dhclient or isp?

[Jeff Ross <jross@openvistas.net>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Tom D wrote:

> Yeah, but the thing is that it works fine with LinkSys Firewall crap, but
> can't get it to work
> on OpenBSD to work, I also block all incoming packets and i've seen some
> weird bootp requestes
> that are being blocked on pf.

All incoming packets?  My firewall pf.conf has this line for dhcpd:

#take dhcpd packets without logging
pass in quick on $if_ext proto udp from any to any port = 68

>
> And I also had to call ATT to give them my MAC Addr. first dhcp request
> worked for more than an hour,
> then all my tries it was like a minute, and dead, dead, dead... crap, I
> tried it at work with our internal dhcp server
> it worked fine for couple of days with the settings that I had, but that ATT
> thing is just pissing me off.

I've never had to call attbi to change my Mac addreess.  The one they set
me up with is on my 8500 PowerMac, and as soon as they left I switched to
an OpenBSD 3.1 firewall.  Booted no problem.  Since then I've probably
changed machines or NICs 15 times. (I'm building firewalls for sale.)

I'm betting you've been blocking dhcp completely.  You even diagnosed the
problem yourself.  No dhcp and loss of internet, and all these blocked
packets in my pf logs...Hmmmmm, I wonder ;-)

HTH!

Jeff

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Jeff Ross
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