On Monday 17 June 2002 23:42, Jon Schewe wrote: > Today AT&T "upgraded" the server I'm connected to and my modem. After > much time online with tech support, they believed it was a hardware > problem. So I reinstalled win95 on the box in preparation for the tech > to come out. Wonder of wonders it started working! > > So here's the status: > - Win95, gets address just fine and everything works > - OpenBSD/dhclient, can't get an address. It sends out requests and > doesn't get back any offers > > If I just hardcode the address in it's fine, that's how I'm up now, but > I'm going to have to be able to renew the lease. Anyone got any ideas? > > Thanks. Not that this will necessarily help people having problems, but here is what I experienced yesterday(Monday 6/17) with the AT&T issues. For the record my location is St Paul, Brewery neighborhood. I couldn't get out in the morning. When I got home I checked again and was still unable to get out. No DNS resolution, etc. My cable modem is hooked to a box running SuSE 8.0 as a NAT Gateway/Simple firewall. I simply stopped and restarted my network services (/etc/init.d/network stop then start) and it found an IP address and all was working. Note: I specifically did not issue a restart. Don't ask why I just decided "turning it off and then back on" was the way to go. Havn't had any problems since. YMMV and all that. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com