Re: DHCP problems
Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Stefan Bellon wrote:
[ifup does not bring up interface via dhcp]
> > The file /etc/network/interfaces contains the lines
> >
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
> > which looks ok to me.
> Yes, this seems fine (although I also have auto lo and
> iface lo inet loopback
> in mine).
Yes, that's in mine as well, but as loopback comes up without any
problems, I discarded that from my last posting, sorry.
> > As mentioned above, with version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4 it worked. To me,
> > it looks like dhclient previously did the "ifconfig eth0 up"
> > itself, but now expects somebody else to do it, but nobody does.
> >
> > As a result, I have to manually bring up the network (which is
> > annoying) as ifup doesn't do it.
> It seems that ifup isn't doing its job. First, be sure that ifup is
> installed, and that it's being run at boot. On my box this happens
> in etc/init.d/networking.
Yes, of course, same here. That's why I wrote that it worked ok with
dhcp3-client version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4. Just updating that packet to
3.0+3.0.1rc11-5 broke it.
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Stefan Bellon
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