DHCPCD Problems with Cox's new network

[Craig White]

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.

Craig