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Re: DHCP prob (woody)



What happens when you try to get the address manually? Try typing:

dhclient eth0

as root and report back the results.

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu


On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, thanhthuvu wrote:

> Hello, I just installed Woody from my system (it was running SID
> before), the problem I have is I can't get dhcp working. It worked just
> fine on Sid before.  I used the same /etc/resolved.conf
> /etc/network/interface files.
> 
> The problem seems to be from this line in /etc/network/interface
> 
> #iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> when I run ifconfig, eth0 was never brought up.
> 
> I also looked at /var/log/daemon and no modules seems to be missing at
> all.
> 
> I also run win2k on this system and it can request the ip address from
> dhcp just fine. 
> 
> Is there anything else I should check ?  Or is there any possible
> package, modules in the kernel that I missed  ?  
> 
> 
> This is my /etc/network/interfaces
> ################################################################
> # The loopback interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
> installation# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
> auto eth0
> #iface eth0 inet static
> #        address 192.168.0.2
> #        netmask 255.255.255.0
> #        network 192.168.0.0
> #        broadcast 192.168.0.255
> #        gateway 192.168.0.1
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> ################################################################
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> ThanhVu Nguyen
> 
> 
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