Re: dhcp/ethernet question
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:11:47AM -0700, Alice Pinard wrote:
> hi, I'm trying to set up a firewall to connect to my cable modem ISP
> (comcast) using DHCP
...
> I am getting a 'weirdness' and I'm not sure if it's on the DHCP end or the
> ethernet end.
>
> Basically if I do an ifconfig the ethernet card is entirely missing the
> line that would begin with inet addr. It's not blank, it's not there with
> a 0.0.0.0 address, it's just not there.
...
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:97:E9:92
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1298
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:443916 (433.5 KiB)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xff00
...
It's correct to assume you have a dhcp client installed (mine is dhcp3)?
What messages can you find in /var/log/syslog when you bring up the
interface? Is there a call out by the client?
Kenward
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