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Re: lost dhcp on boot up



Just FYI, that broadcast junk is typical of what's seen when plugged into a Cisco switch... it's probably NOT from his machine, but from the switch above it in the network architecture.

On Thursday, Jan 1, 2004, at 23:14 America/Denver, Jan Minar wrote:

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:39PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote:
Try dhclient(8) manually from the command line. If that doesn't work,
try spying on the connection using tcpdump(8).  Punch your firewall
properly. That's what I'd do. And please post the useful bits verbatim
(e.g. that interfaces entry--who says it's not malformed?).

The error messages are dmesg(8), ip(8)/ifconfig(8), tcpdump(8).


I tried executing dhclient; it just returns a prompt.  This is what
tcpdump collects from eth0 when I execute dhclient

Great!  Now we know there is no DHCP traffic going out your box.  Only
some 802.1d bridge stuff. Bingo.

The configs look fine.

I'll be glad to to try other suggestions.

Go through the thread, and apply the suggestions already made :-)
E.g.:

% ifconfig a
% ip l
% ip a
% ip r

And: what was the dhclient's commandline?  (Read: Was it correct?)  And
tcpdump's.  Post _with_ invocations. So again:

# dhclient -d eth0
# tcpdump -i eth0

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