Author: Craig White Date: Subject: DHCPCD Problems with Cox's new network
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 09:40, John Kloian III wrote: > I think maybe I can verify that. I did the conversion with my windows
> box, which in restrospect was a bad idea. since Then i have not been able
> to get my firewall to grab an IP. I can put it in statically and pass
> traffic. When I use pump and watch the logs this is what I see right
> before a timeout:
>
> xid: 0x63aabbdf4a rejected <-> 0x64aabbddcf
>
> My suspicion is that this is their dhcp server rejecting my request on
> what I can only assume is the MAC address of my NIC. although I cannot
> find any decent documentation.
>
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call their tech support - tell them that you changed computers connected
to the net so they can reset your connection - have mac address in hand
when you call if they manuallly set it.