Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 10.16 schrieb Harry Brueckner: > Hi there, > > I have a Xircom Realport NIC in my notebook which run Debian Woody stable > and now unstable. > > I have to use a dhcp server (dhcp-client 2.0pl5-15) when I am connected in > the office and no network connection while I am at home. > > The problem now is, that while I am at the office and dhcp is working > everything is fine and I can shutdown/reboot the machine and it always > comes up again with a fresh dhcp connect. > Now when I am using the computer at home for a while (without network link) > and come back into the office, the network link does not come up again. > > ifconfig shows the eth0 interface but the ip address is missing. Everything > else seems to be ok. Of course there is no routing information because dhcp > gives up after a while with the following messages: > > ... dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 > <repeated> > ... dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. > ... dhclient: No working leases in persistent database. > ... dhclient: Sleeping. > > On the dhcp server I can see that it actually does get a connection > assigned but somehow the communication on my clients side looses something. > > I also tried the dhcp3-client but it didn't make any changes. After I run > the notebook without network link something seems to get messed up. > > To get it back to live, I have to start/stop /etc/init.d/networking, > /etc/init.d/pcmcia and /etc/pcmcia/network a couple of times. So far I was > not able to find a procedure which always works to get the link working > again. Just kill -9 dhclient, take out the card and put it back in. Or try the following: killall dhclient /sbin/dhclient eth0 The latter works for me to "update" the dhcp lease on my laptop after a lengthy suspend. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
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