Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting
I have 'network packet filtering' disabled. I think that's used for a
gateway/firewall configartion.
I don't see 'socket packet' but there is 'socket filtering' which is also
disabled. what would you suggest?
thx,
p.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce, Matthew" <MJoyce@ccia.org.au>
To: "'paul'" <paul.miller@rogers.com>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:55 PM
Subject: RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting
> I'm sure I had to include "Packet Filtering" and "Socket Packet" in the
> Networking Options in make menuconfig, before my dhcp client would work.
>
>
> Matthew Joyce
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul [mailto:paul.miller@rogers.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 1:47 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting
>
>
> if i boot with my old kernel, a 2.4.18bf2.4, everything works properly, so
> the configuation and client are sound. when i boot with my custom
compiled
> kernel nothings happens, no error messages. if i try 'ifconfig -a' the
> adapter is shown, but without an IP. I checked the dhclient & interfaces
> man pages. Here's my syslog entries with eth0:
>
> sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001
> PCI: Assigned IRQ 3 for device 00:03.0
> eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY tansceiver found at address 1 as default
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd800, IRQ 3, 00:08:98:ed:46:4e
>
> the only suspect line is:
> ds: no socket drivers loaded!
>
> i'll look into ds man page.
>
> p.
>
> >Do you have a DHCP client (pump, dhcp-client) installed?
> >Have you looked at the configuation file/manpage for same?
> >Do you need to send a particular hostname to get an address?
>
> >Not trying to be rude, but more information, please. Look at
> >/var/log/syslog (you can tail it while you restart eth0) and post some
> >error messages if you can't make sense of them. Start with the man
> >page for the DHCP client that is installed, and write back with
> >details.
>
> >HTH,
> >Steve
>
>
>
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