No DHCPOFFERS received.

Stefan Bethke stb at lassitu.de
Tue Aug 1 12:30:36 UTC 2006


Am 01.08.2006 um 04:43 schrieb Alexandre Martins Garcia:

> Hello everybody,
> I have a modem connected to my freebsd machine in ethernet, so to  
> have a configuration from my ISP I did:
>
> hydrus[/home/amg]# dhclient fxp0
...
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Very clearly, there appears to be no DHCP server on the other end.   
If you have an *ADSL* modem (instead of the phone or ISDN variety),  
it is quite likely that your ISP requires you to use PPP over  
Ethernet (PPPoE).  The handbook has a section explaining how to  
configure your system to connect via this method.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html

If you can show us your ISPs instructions for configuring a Windows  
or Mac system, I'm certain we can help convert those for FreeBSD.


HTH,
Stefan

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