On Friday 03 February 2006 21:43, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
thanks, I tried that:
wahoo:~ # rcnetwork restart eth0 Shutting down network interfaces: eth0 done Setting up network interfaces: eth0 (DHCP) IP/Netmask: 192.168.1.2 / 255.255.255.0 done
wahoo:~ # ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3013ms
Hi Patrick, I've been sitting on (figuratively) a little gem of a post from a while back that had me puzzled but ended up being highly informative. Here is the relevant excerpt:
I have no idea what it is, but all I know is that when I did a ifup-dhcp wlan0 -o debug,auto dhcp assigned an address to wlan0
Since the OP complained that "man ifup-dhcp" gave no feedback, I tried and discovered he was right. So I did some investigating. Here is what I found: On my system (9.3) I have the following items under /sbin: ifdown-dhcp -> ifup-dhcp ifstatus-dhcp -> ifup-dhcp ifprobe -> ifup ifstatus -> ifup ifdown -> ifup ifconfig pin revealed these items came from sysconfig-0.32.0-18.2.i586.rpm I checked for sysconfig documentation and it exists. The file I think you'll find most interesting is this one: /usr/share/doc/packages/sysconfig/Network I don't know why there aren't any man pages for these utilities, but they seem like they'd be extremely helpful in situations such as your's. The problem is, I'm not really able to experiment with these right now... a lot going on. Anyway, I'm hoping you might oblige and tell me what happens, if anything :-) regards, - Carl