OK, your setup appears to be OK.
Here is some general info on how SuSE handles DHCP clients which
may help out...
When you configure a network interface in YaST, you can mark it
for DHCP, which writes for example "eth0=dhclient" into
/etc/rc.config.
If you have dhcpcd installed (which is the default), then the
/etc/init.d/dhclient script uses it for the DHCP client program
when it runs. From my understanding dhcpcd runs as a daemon and
does NOT use any configuration file. That's the way it is
working on my laptop.
If you DON'T have dhcpcd installed, but DO have dhclient, then
it uses dhclient, which DOES use a configuration file.
I think the difference is that dhclient lets you control the
settings more, but is usually not necessary.
So, see if you /sbin/dhcpcd installed. If not, then you are
probably using dhclient as your client program.
dhcpcd should always be running in the background. It is on my
lappy.
Regardless of which client program you are using, you can set
some general things in /etc/rc.config.d/dhcpcd.rc.config.
Hope this helps.
Keith
--- Jeffrey Taylor
If I understand all this correctly. Your router box is getting the IP address from RR and keeping it for itself. This is correct. It is masquerading all of the local boxes and they get private IP addresses, 192.169.x.x via DHCP. There isn't really a good reason not to give them infinite leases. The dynamic IP address is negotiated between RR and the router box and you never see it. The router is acting as both a DHCP client as far as RR is concerned, and a DHCP server as far as the boxes on your LAN. This is all correct.
You may wish to configure your DHCP client to not change the host name and accept infinite leases. Other than that I don't see anything obvious that's a problem.
Jeffrey
Gladly!
I have my SuSE box connected to a hardware router, which in turn is connected to a cable modem. From what I can tell about the router's configuration, it is set up as the DHCP server. The dhclient program has been running since day 1, it was configured as part of the SuSE installation and this error has always shown up, though it did not seem to present any
Quoting Joshua Trutwin
: problems to access to the Internet/LAN. The dhclient script is the program that raises the dhcpcd errors, that is the only script in /etc/init.d related to DHCP. When all is said and done, neither are running (ps -deaf | grep dh). If I try to reboot without running dhclient, network access is hosed, so it must be doing something important. I do not need an infinite IP lease as my cable provider (RoadRunner) uses dynamic IP address assignment. Does that help or is there something else I can provide?
Josh
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