dhcp/cable modem

[Curtis Lahr <curtis@cklahr.com>]

Hello,

Recently my OpenBSD 3.1 -stable firewall stopped getting an IP address via dhcp 
from my cablem modem ISP.  I've read through various forums and OpenBSD Misc 
Archives and have found many other people that have had the same problem.  Most 
of the other people having this problem were @Home users and it seems the fix 
was to add the "send 'host-name'" option in the dhclient.conf file.  My ISP 
doesn't seem to require this,  I've used several MS boxes and a Linksys router 
to make sure I could get an address at all, they all worked fine provided I use 
the NIC that my ISP has registered to me ( they do the MAC address tracking 
deal ) and I didn't give any of them a special host name.  Everything used to 
work on the OpenBSD box just fine and one day it just quit working.  I didn't 
make any changes before this started happening so I'm assuming my ISP has made 
some change. Unfortunately my ISP frowns heavily on people running any "server" 
OS's without subscribing to their business class service, so asking them for 
help is out of the question.  

Anyone have any suggestions besided the @Home fix?  I apologize if I haven't 
included enough information.  

Thank you very much,

Curtis



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