[ale] Take-2: From static to DHCP

[Keith Hopkins]

Michael E. Barker wrote:

> Keith Hopkins wrote:
> 
>>Michael E. Barker wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have @home (which has been in trouble for a while) through Comcast my
>>>cable provider.  I just recieved an email saying I need to reconfigure
>>>from static to DHCP with their new high-speed service or lose
>>>connctivity.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have experience with this.  I have succesfully configured
>>>DHCP for lan in the past but cable does not want to cooperate.
>>>
>>>Appreciativly
>>>
>>>-Michael
>>>
>>Hi Michael,
>>
>>   Now that I've actually read your message completely <grin>...What's really happening?  What does your system log report from the DHCP client?  Which client are you using?  Which distro?
>>
>>Lost again in Tokyo,
>>   Keith
>>
> 
> I'm running Mandrake 8.1.  I used draknet via drakconf (conf tool in
> mandrake) to configure the network device after confirming that I had
> "dhcpcd" ( I also have dhclient ) and the syslog tells me that
> everything configures successfully but times out waiting for a DHCP
> server response:
> 
> Jan 18 21:39:16 cc745308-a DrakX: writing host information to /etc/hosts
> Jan 18 21:39:32 cc745308-a DrakX: running: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
> restart
> Jan 18 21:39:34 cc745308-a network: Setting network parameters: 
> succeeded
> Jan 18 21:39:36 cc745308-a network: Bringing up interface lo:  succeeded
> Jan 18 21:39:36 cc745308-a ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
> Jan 18 21:40:36 cc745308-a dhcpcd[8782]: timed out waiting for a valid
> DHCP server
> response
> Jan 18 21:40:36 cc745308-a ifup:  failed.
> Jan 18 21:40:36 cc745308-a network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
> 
> Drakconf then appears to probe for other devices of which it will find
> none.
> 
> The instructions in the email from Comcast are for Win but basically say
> set for DHCP and remove all fields except the host name, which I
> duplicated in Draknet.
> 
> Still no luck.
> 
> -Michael
> 


Hi Michael,

   How many lan cards do you have in this machine?  Are you sure eth0 is the one connected to your cable modem?

   Please find the config file for dhcpcd (probably /etc/dhcpcd.conf) and post it please.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith





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