Re: problems getting ip with dhcp
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:47, Andreas Kägi wrote:
> hello everybody,
> i have a computer with two 3com-network cards, using the kernel module 3c59x.
> the first nic has a static ip-adress that works fine. on the 2nd card i have a cable-modem, and want to get the ip-address via dhcp. so i have set the /etc/network/interfaces to:
>
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
>
> but eth1 does not get a ip-address assigned. ifconfig -a shows:
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:E5:51:0C
> BROADCAST ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb800
>
> ifconfig without the -a option doesn't show eth1 at all.
>
> i don't know where the problem is but i think it cannot be the modem since i tested it on another box with both windows and linux.
>
> i have few experience with linux and such networking issues and would be glad if somebody could help me.
> i've tried alot and read several howtos but couldn't find any information on that specific problem.
>
> andreas
>
for debugging i would take one of the cards out, assign eth0 to be
static (which is what it sounds like you have done) and verify that
works as expected, then change eth0 to dhcp via /etc/network/interfaces
then give us some log files or something.
-matt
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