You shouldn't have to input the actiontec MAC. I feel your pain about the
support though. It sucks.
To alleviate this put the actiontec back in. Log into it and go to the
interface and actually release the IP. After that unplug it immediately. Plug
your ONT into your BSD firewall and boot it up and you'll be good to go. You
can also just run dhclient on yiur interfacr but I found a solid reboot worked
for me as just requesting a new IP did not.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Liviu Daia [liviu.d...@romednet.com]
Received: Wednesday, 06 Feb 2013, 4:55am
To: misc@openbsd.org [misc@openbsd.org]
Subject: Re: Verizon FIOS, OpenBSD, and DHCP
On 6 February 2013, bofh <goodb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Jay Hart <jh...@kevla.org> wrote:
> > Solved this. It took Verizon three tries (three calls by me), to
> > actually get the RJ-45 port working on the ONT.
>
> Hmm... I had to set my MAC address to the Actiontec's.
>
> $ cat /etc/hostname.em0
> !ifconfig \$if lladdr 00:0f:b3:aa:aa:aa
> dhcp
For what it's worth, it's probably useful to keep around a packet
capture of a successful DHCP negotiation with your ISP. DHCP is a
complicated protocol, and ISPs do weird things with it. A known-good
packet capture might save you a lot of time when switching equipment.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
