Re: Router doesn't recognize Debian system
Brian Hostetler wrote:
> I recently migrated my home server from SPARC Solaris to PPC Debian. The
> transition was remarkably smooth and I have been humming along for nearly
> a week. Sometime late Saturday, however, my Debian box "dropped off" as
> far as my 2wire DSL router is concerned. It no longer shows up as an
> attached device and as such, the router stopped port forwarding. I could
> blame the router, but reactivating the SPARC server yielded a postive
> identification. Re-IPing the Debian system with a different IP address
> still resulted in the device not showing up. I've swapped cables, switch
> ports, rebooted, etc. The Debian system can get out through the router
> fine and the router can ping the Debian, DNS is good, etc. Working on the
> belief that rpc might be needed to register the device, I look and see
> that it's running. Nothing in syslog looks suspicious.
Is the router expecting hosts to be configured using DHCP?
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