Mr. Hale....
Did you ever get any real help with this?
My thought: are you telling the interface to use DHCP
in /etc/rc.conf? For example, for the RealTek 8139
family of NICs, the following should be in /etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
The 'rl0' would vary to another driver name for another
type of NIC.
If I understood your original question correctly, you desire
the FBSD box to grab its own configuration data from the
router for your LAN interface --- I think that ought to do
it.
Best of luck
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry W Hale III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 12:48 PM
Subject: Private Home network
> I have small network at home consisting of three machines. These
> machines are connected through a router to a cable modem where they
> share the internet.
>
> My router assigns by dhcp ip numbers in the range of 192.168.1.2 to
> 192.168.1.l00. The router does NAT for my other computers. I do not have
> an official registered domain. My windows machines boot up and operate
> on the internet without complication. Is there any way that I can get my
> FreeBSD machine to due the same?
>
> My FreeBSD machine will get a valid ip assignment. It is not be able to
> get external DNS translations and Sendmail chokes.
>
>
>
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