> Kevin Old wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:58:07 +0100, Alexander Apprich >> <a.apprich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [schnip] >>>>Can you elaborate on "using dhclient"? I'm having the same problem as >>>>Ketil with trying to connect to a network. >>> >>>Just execute dhclient, and if eth0 is up and a dhcp server is availible >>>eth0 get its network config assigned. Older RedHats < 8 used to have >>>pump which did allmost the same. >>> >>>If dhclient doesn't work it's probably because a firewall is blocking >>>DHCP. >> >> >> Ok, it must be the firewall, but I have it disabled. I've verified >> this by the "/sbin/service iptables status" which reports "Firewall is >> stopped". >> >> Under "Security" (in the Gnome menu, not sure where) it shows that the >> firewall is disabled and SELinux is disabled. >> >> Any ideas if there's something else somehow blocking the network? >> > > Where is the dhcp server located at, same subnet? Do you have another > box which gets ist netconfig from the dhcp server? maybe it's an > issue from something between your box and the dhcp server? > >> Thanks, >> Kevin >> >> > > Alex > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > if you execute /sbin/iptables -L, will you see 3 empty iptables-chains with no rules inside? If no, probably your firewall hasn't properly stopped. If you want to stop firewalling completely, i always use /sbin/service iptables stop also, if you do /sbin/ifconfig, do you just get lo? or even eth0? what ip-adresses can you see? Just 127.0.0.1? also, do 'locate dhclient' - do you find those files: /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases in here, you will find some appropiate messages about the lease of your ip, something like: lease { interface "eth0"; fixed-address 192.168.2.100; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option dhcp-lease-time -1; option routers 192.168.2.1; option dhcp-message-type 5; option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.2.1; option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.1; renew 2 2038/1/19 03:14:07; rebind 2 2038/1/19 03:14:07; expire 2 2038/1/19 03:14:07; } (bad example, fixed ip) ...and... /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf this makes your hostname known to your dhcp/dns-servers. if you don't have a leases-file: try again to start dhclient and look in /var/log/messages, you should get some entries there. Roger
