No DHCPOFFERS received.

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:43:22AM +0000, Alexandre Martins Garcia wrote:
> 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
> DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
> DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
> DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> 
> But it gives this error saying No DHCPOFFERS received...
> 
> Anyone had this problem before? And how to fix this? :-S

Erm, does your ISP "modem" definitely offer a DHCP service? In that case it
would be a "router". Maybe you need to talk PPPoE instead.

Have a look at their instructions for configuring a Windows client. If it
talks about setting up a dialler, where you enter a username and password,
then it's PPPoE.

For a FreeBSD PPPoE client, look at /usr/ports/net/mpd

HTH,

Brian.