> > In reply to Rasputin:
>
> > (Sorry for not immediately responding.  You deleted my name from the
> > To:/Cc: list and so I never saw the reply in my mailbox.  And due to my
> > present networking difficulties, I'm on a text console on my home gateway.
>
> Ah... sorry!

(^&  I *really* need to add that to my signature, I guess.  (If I actually
subscribed to these lists, I'm sure that my mailbox would grow without
bound.  I prefer to read the lists from a web-page for that reason.)


> > Anyway, I don't know why you think my ISP would firewall-block DHCP,
> > especially when *they* were the ones telling me to use DHCP.
>
> No, no - I meant, *your* machine may have been running a firewall, not
> the ISP!

Oh, sorry.  No.  Not unless my machine has supernatural powers.  (^&  ipf
and ipnat were only invoked when I manually ran a script after booting.
(I booted so rarely that I never got around to making it part of the boot
sequence.)  I have since booted the machine, and I'm about as sure as I
can be that there are no firewall rules blocking DHCP.


> > I ran a tcpdump of part of a dhclient session.  (I started tcpdump, then
> > ran dhclient; after a couple of ~10-second delays, I killed dhclient.)
> > Here's the output:
> >
> >  /~~~ dhclient -=> tcpdump
> >
> > 20:07:55.042762 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:  xid:0xc456bb39 [|bootp] [tos 0x10]
> > 20:08:03.010606 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:  xid:0xc456bb39 secs:8 [|bootp] [tos 0x10]
> > 20:08:18.010746 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:  xid:0xc456bb39 secs:23 [|bootp] [tos 0x10]
>
> Right, that's your machine asking for an IP, and it looks like
> nothings coming back.

Yes, I kind of figured.  Alas...


> I think the network addressing is bunk though - see my other repky.

If you mean the bit about all being in one subnet: I checked just now and
that is in fact how they've set me up.  Back in Kansas City, I had a
dialup static IP account.  *There* I had a block of addresses in one
subnet, and a single address (for the PPP interface) in another subnet.
Life was simpler.  (^&


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu