On Thursday 28 October 2004 17:29, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2004 14:56, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Don Parris
[10-27-04 23:04]: Just out of curiosity, since you haven't stated so explicitly, did you double check the NIC's configuration in Yast?
yes
I assume you've set the IP address manually?
no, obtained automagically.
Not that it should mysteriously change on you, but...
note: there is a router between box and cable router.
Let's see if we can get more info. I'm on 9.2 right now (this was about 9.0, right?), but I think this has not changed:
In /etc/sysconfig/network/config, set the variable 'DEBUG' to 'yes', and report any error messages.
Here's another one you could try: In /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp, set the variable 'DHCLIENT_DEBUG' to 'yes'. In the comment above that declaration is mentioned where the logfile is stored. Also you might want to install the package dhcp-tools, and run the script below like: dhcp-dump eth0 ----[dhcp-dump]---- #! /bin/bash DEV=${1:-eth0} tcpdump -i $DEV -lenx -s 1500 port bootps or port bootpc | dhcpdump ----[dhcp-dump]---- I did have problems in the past, when I frequently booted between 2 OS'es. The point was that the DHCP-lease was not released, so OS1 would request a lease while the DHCP-server thought that OS1 already had a lease, but actually OS2 had the lease. The solution was to release the lease if the network goes down (DHCLIENT_RELEASE_BEFORE_QUIT="yes"). Cheers, Leen