Using dhcp on a home cable connection
I have my ethernet card detected and working (using tulip.o, and etherconf from Progeny), connected to a cable modem, but the internet isn't working at all.
When I run pump, I get a looooong pause, and "Operation failed." with no further explanation. So I removed pump and installed dhcp-client. (Using the Progeny 1.0 versions, only slightly more updated than potato, I believe.) The dhcp-client script at both startup and run later from /etc/init.d/dhcp-client produces no output and seems to do nothing.
I have very little in /etc/network/interfaces, but isn't the dhcp protocol supposed to retrieve stuff like nameservers and gateways in addition to your IP address? In that case, what stuff needs to be in /etc/dhclient.conf, versus the "traditional" config files (resolv.conf, interfaces)?
Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks!!!
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Here's my config stuff:
progeny:/etc# netstat -i
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0 1500 0 2 0 0 0 11 1 0 1 BRU
eth0: 1500 0 - no statistics available - BRU
lo 3924 0 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 LRU
progeny:/etc# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.5.5.213 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
progeny:/etc# cat network/interfaces
### etherconf DEBCONF AREA. DO NOT EDIT THIS AREA OR INSERT TEXT BEFORE IT.
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
auto lo eth0
# The loopback interface
iface lo inet loopback
# The ethernet interface, configured by etherconf
iface eth0 inet dhcp
hostname progeny
### END OF DEBCONF AREA. PLACE YOUR EDITS BELOW; THEY WILL BE PRESERVED.
### pppconf DEBCONF AREA. DO NOT EDIT THIS AREA OR INSERT TEXT BEFORE IT.
### END OF DEBCONF AREA. PLACE YOUR EDITS BELOW; THEY WILL BE PRESERVED.
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