Subject: Re: DHCP and RoadRunner Cable Modem
To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@pointless.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/28/2001 19:39:02
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:36:38PM +0100, Jasper Wallace wrote:
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> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Analysis and Solutions wrote:
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> > Hi Folks:
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> > Just installed NetBSD 1.5 (in a dual boot situation with Windows 95 and
> > Windows NT 4.0).  Glad to be here.  Unfortunately, I can't get a connecion to
> > the internet.  The link is via a RoadRunner cable modem using DHCP.  The
> > modem is hooked to my machine via a 10 Base T Netgear FA 312 network adapter
> > card.
> >
> 
> > ================   ifconfig -a -u    =========================
> > sip0: flags=fbff<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,LOOPBACK,POINTOPOINT,NOTRAILERS,
> >    RUNNING,NOARP,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,LINK0,LINK1,LINK2,MULTICAST>
> >    mtu 1500
> 
> Thats very odd - DEBUG ?, POINTOPOINT !?!, LOOPBACK !?!?!? LINK0,LINK1,LINK2 ???


Yes, this is a bug in the driver. This is solved in 1.5.1

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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