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[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:56:42 Kai Ponte wrote:
> My openSUSE 10.2 laptop has been on the corporate network since being
> upgraded from Vista in May (a week after I got it).
>
> Suddenly yesterday, I cannot connect to anything. I checked and found
> that my network - eth0 - is on but that I'm connected to a 'default'
> network of 169.254.x.x, which I'm told is a Microsoft network. My
> network admins (who work for me) are not able to help since none know
> Linux.

It's not a Microsoft network, it's a "zeroconf" network, which is a standard 
for setting up machines without any configuration at all. suse will fall back 
to that when it doesn't receive an address from the dhcp server

> We recently switched from an NT 4.0 Domain to a new AD setup. That
> switch was three weeks ago, so I can't imagine this issue is related.
>
> In googling, I found that there apparently is no GUI tool for
> configuring or renewing DHCP leases. I dropped down to the command
> line and have tried both 'service network restart' and 'dhclient -r
> eth0'
>
> In both cases, the network releases and then comes back.

What is running on the server side? Is the AD thing also responsible for DHCP? 
If so, you should know that the Microsoft DHCP server is bad, even for them

You can enable debugging output by setting DHCLIENT_DEBUG to "yes" 
in /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp, which will log all the messages going between 
server and client. That will at least help you narrow down where the problem 
is

> Ideas?

Since you seem to be the manager there, how about getting rid of microsoft and 
going to a linux only environment? :)

Or hiring some people with more linux skills

Anders

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