Srinivasan S became daring and sent these 6.8K bytes, > On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 Aaron Matteson wrote : > >Srinivasan S became daring and sent these 2.9K bytes, > > > Hi Folks > > > > > > Yesterday I had posted on a problem I have with the DHCP not responding to my cable modem setup. I got a lot of answers but didn't change the situation. > > > > > > My setup : > > > eth0 - local n/w > > > eth1 - cable modem, set to request for DHCP > > > The error is that I do not get a client IP. > > > (This was the error I had previously also.) > > > > > > I went ahead and did a little more .. since this is a dual boot I booted windows and got my ip status. Then in Fedora I set it to the ip obtained via windows, set the gateway and subnet mask and the primary DNS and secondary DNS. Activated it and it worked beautifully. > > > > > > This means that my NIC is fine, the modem is communicating to the correct NIC.The only problem is now the DHCP client configuration. In addition I also turned off Firewall and the DHCPD that was running on eth0. No success. > > > > > > Can someone help me on this now that I have been able to zero in that the only issue is setting up dhcp client. > > > >I recently engaged this exact problem exc. with a WinXP machine. How i > >solved it was to grab the IP/dns server addresses by hand from the WinXP > >machine and enter them statically to the linux box. This can be done > >because you are getting a static address anyways, the DHCP server is > >just a formality to make things easier. > > > >Just enter the ip addy, subnet and the gateway manually, then add the > >dns servers to /etc/resolv.conf then powerdown the modem then power it > >back up (not from the soft shutdown button on the top of the modem, just > >pull the plug and put it back in) and you should be set. > > > >This is what i had to do, given you are having the same issue as i had, > >i suspect this should resolve your problem. > > Hi Aaron > I already did what you just described and it works. > Does this mean there is no way to setup dhcp client ? > Doesn't appeal that something is possible in stupid windows > and not in linux .. hmmm > Regards > Srini If there is a way i could not find it, worked on the problem for about 8 hours before i gave up on it. Not a huge problem, but curious none-the-less. The only thing i can think of is dhclient is not respondign the the dhcp server properly to finish teh transaction. Probably some wierd auth stuff, i dunno have not dug into it deep enouph to tell what the problem is exactly. And i prefer not too unless i absolutly need to, would have to figure out how. :) -- /\o Aaron M Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us /\/ /\ Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, / \ it should be hard to understand! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Email! \ / X All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander / \ are lost --jrr tolkien
