NEWBIE: Logging into Cox Cable service

[Matt H]

I have Cox.net here. What seems to happen is that the cable modem
itself latches  on (so to speak) to the MAC address of the nic you're
using. Usually, all that is required is to power cycle the cable modem
and it should see the new nic and you'll be able to get your DHCP
response.

HTH.

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:41 -0500, James A. Coulter
<james.coulter at cox.net> wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 4.10 and am trying to connect to my Cox ISP via a an
> Ethernet nic and cable modem.
> 
> I have DHCP for the nic enabled in /etc/rc.conf and can obtain an IP address
> from my Windows 98 gateway, but when I connect the nic to the cable modem
> and reboot I do not get a response from the cox DHCP server.
> 
> The nic shows active in ifconfig, but no IP is assigned to it.
> 
> I suspect the Cox DHCP server is expecting a username and password from
> dhclient.conf
> 
> I googled and the closest answer I found was a short article in the FreeBSD
> Diary published in 2000 that gave this as an example dhclient.conf:
> 
> interface "de0" {
> send host-name "cr123456-a";
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name-servers,
> domain-name, time-servers;
> require domain-name-servers;
> }
> 
> I tried substituting my own interface and looked up the hostname info cox
> provided to my Windows 98 box and swapped the computer names, but no luck.
> 
> Is my hunch correct?  When I set up my Windows boxes to connect to Cox with
> their CD, it always asked for the main account username and password – so
> I'm guessing when the dhcp client sends out its request for an address, the
> Cox DHCP server is expecting a username and password.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to send the username and password?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jim C.
> 
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Matt H <matt.haley at gmail.com>