I am trying to use DHCP to configure the the IP addresses of a number of SuSE 7.3 boxes, The DHCP server is running NT 4 SP6a, and is working perfectly with MS clients, however SuSE will only initalise the network if I manually set the ip address etc. The linux DHCPclient seems to just hang, rather than obtaining a lease. Anyone any idea whats wrong/what to look for? Thanks Rob Keeling Network Manager Queen Elizabeth`s Grammar School Ashbourne
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 February 2002 2:29 pm, Rob Keeling wrote:
I am trying to use DHCP to configure the the IP addresses of a number of SuSE 7.3 boxes, The DHCP server is running NT 4 SP6a, and is working perfectly with MS clients, however
Eek. I'm hopefully going to try a similar thing tomorrow, so I'll have to see how I get one :)
SuSE will only initalise the network if I manually set the ip address etc.
Hrm, setting the address manually will work then? Won't the dhcp server object to it?
The linux DHCPclient seems to just hang,
I found this in the dhcp mini howto, dunno if it's any help. If not, try looking at the rest of the howto, especially the troubleshooting section. 3.10.2. Your DHCP server supports RFC 1541/My DHCP server is Windows NT Try running dhcpcd by typing dhcpcd -r. Use ifconfig to check if your network interface is configured (wait few seconds for the configuration process, initally it will say Inet.addr=0.0.0.0) If this solves your problem add the "-r" flag to the boot up scripts, ie: instead of /sbin/dhcpcd you will have /sbin/dhcpcd -r. For example under RedHat edit script /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup and change the following: IFNAME=$[ {DEVICE} \ "/sbin/dhcpcd -r -c /etc/"- etc etc. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8eQIBF8Iu1zN5WiwRAm22AJ4typkhBfuDMJRFDZ4W+OEeiFenxwCfQZ3W mjr6VZOzrgRW3JytJ53Y7sc= =/RLn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
One possibility is to look at the setting for DHCLIENT_TIMEOUT in /etc/rc.config.d/dhcpcd.rc.config On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Rob Keeling wrote:
I am trying to use DHCP to configure the the IP addresses of a number of SuSE 7.3 boxes, The DHCP server is running NT 4 SP6a, and is working perfectly with MS clients, however SuSE will only initalise the network if I manually set the ip address etc.
The linux DHCPclient seems to just hang, rather than obtaining a lease.
Anyone any idea whats wrong/what to look for?
Thanks
Rob Keeling Network Manager Queen Elizabeth`s Grammar School Ashbourne
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