network configuration problem

[Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach]

Hello,

at the moment I'm using internet an emails via a 56k modem and ppp.
I want to change to DSL -- but I'm not able to do it without help.

I've bought a router/gateway from my provider (Telekom/T-Online)
which is called "Speedport W 502V Typ A" an has the ip address
192.168.2.1; it is connectet to an ethernet card (rl0).

The provider requests DHCP, but this doesn't work; I get the message

| Bogus domain search list 15: Speedport_W_502V_Typ_A (Speedport_W_502V_Typ_A)
| Invalid lease option - ignoring offer

several times and the error message "Network is unreachable".

Then I assigned an address (e. g. 192.168.10.1) to the ethernet card
with the help of

    ifconfig rl0 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0

and made it the default route:

    route add default 192.168.10.1

output of ifconfig:

| rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
|         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
|         inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0
|         inet6 fe80::214:85ff:fe75:eac8%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
|         ether 00:14:85:75:ea:c8
|         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
|         status: active


and netstat:

| Routing tables
|
| Internet:
| Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
| default            192.168.10.1       UGS         0     2304    rl0
| localhost          localhost          UH          0      490    lo0
| 192.168.10         link#1             UC          0        0    rl0
| 192.168.10.1       00:14:85:75:ea:c8  UHLW        2       36    lo0


I cannot "ping" the router/gateway:

| PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1): 56 data bytes
| 36 bytes from 192.168.10.1: Time to live exceeded
| Vr HL TOS  Len   ID Flg  off TTL Pro  cks      Src      Dst
|  4  5  00 5400 025f   0 0000  01  01 29f8 192.168.10.1  192.168.2.1
|
| 36 bytes from 192.168.10.1: Time to live exceeded
| Vr HL TOS  Len   ID Flg  off TTL Pro  cks      Src      Dst
|  4  5  00 5400 0269   0 0000  01  01 29ee 192.168.10.1  192.168.2.1
|
| 36 bytes from 192.168.10.1: Time to live exceeded
| Vr HL TOS  Len   ID Flg  off TTL Pro  cks      Src      Dst
|  4  5  00 5400 0273   0 0000  01  01 29e4 192.168.10.1  192.168.2.1
etc.


With "firefox http://192.168.2.1" (to get the configuration menu of
the speedport) I get the error message:

| The connection was refused when attempting to contact 192.168.2.1.

and with telnet:

| Trying 192.168.2.1...
| telnet: connect to address 192.168.2.1: No route to host
| telnet: Unable to connect to remote host


What I'm doing wrong?
Can you please help me?

Thanks,
Johannes-Maria


P. S.: I'm using  FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. (That's the only operating
system on my pc, so I cannot test or configure the speedport with
Linux or MS-Windows.)