On 5/4/05, Nick LeRoy
Hello,
I'm trying to upgrade my cable-modem firewall -- I'm currently running SuSE 8.2 on an old P5 box, and I'm upgrading to 9.3 on a K6-2/400. SuSE installed ok, I've verified that both NICs function properly when connected to my local LAN, etc.
The problem is that when I connect the external NIC to the cable-modem hub, it doesn't seem to get a DHCP address back, and I'm at a loss to understand what's going wrong.
Here's what I've been able to learn... eth0 is the external and eth1 is the internal (I wish that I could switch them, but that's how it seems to assign them no matter what I do). dhcpcd from eth1 (internal) works fine, gets an address from my internal DHCP server correctly, etc.
At boot time, it give a message (I didn't write it down, but from memory) "no address... backgrounding" [for eth0].
Hi Nick, did I understand correctly that you have one internal dhcpd on another machine to assign the internal IP to eth1? Can it be a conflict between the dhcp servers than. Try setting eth1 with static IP. Saying "cable-modem hub", does it mean that you have a hub between the modem and the machine? Is it possible something else connected to that hub (or it by itself) be running another dhcp server? I had such a problem, connecting a wireless router (D-Link) between my machine and the modem, and I got the same problems as you. I solved it bu turning off the dhcp server of the modem, and letting the router to assign addresses. Also, make sure that you get always the same name for each card. I read your system does not switch them, but who knows, reassurance is not so bad :) Cheers Sunny