On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:05:40PM -0500, Rodney Wishart wrote:
I'm having a problem acquiring an ip address from my netgear broadband router. My windows boxes and my print server have no problems acquiring an IP address through dhcp, so I know its not the router. When configuring eth0 with DHCP in YAST all is well and I receive an IP address from my router. However during boot up I receive a "dhcp failed" error message, during the configuring eth0 dhcp phase. Not really sure what to do here. I'm usually OK if one of the other clients on my network doesn't grab the IP address of my linux box. If for instance, the power on the router goes off, all my clients receive new IPs and I must reconfigure eth0 with DHCP through YAST to get an IP from the router. Here is the boot log error message:
eth0 (DHCP) <notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/dhcpcd) [ /sbin/dhcpcd -D -N -t 999999 -B -h linux eth0 ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/ bin/sh OLDPWD=/etc/sysconfig/network progress=18 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 RUN_FROM_RC=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=118 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/ usr/bin:/etc/sysconfig/network/scripts vga=0x317 RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/etc/ sysconfig/network PREVLEVEL=N LINES=38 HOME=/ SHLVL=4 splash=silent sscripts=39 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/dhcpcd ] <notice>pidofproc: dhcpcd 885 failed <notice>exit status of (network) is (0)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Don't worry, it is a cosmetical problem. Your router gives you a lease that is valid infinitely. Fixed in 9.1. If your router (i.e. DHCP server doesn't store leases over power cycles, it is quite sad and there is nothing that SUSE Linux can do about it. Peter