Hi, Thanks!! I think that may be the problem here - by default the lease request time is set to infinite in /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp; at the very most it should be set to 3600 seconds. Also, I have set the machine to relinquish it's IP address on shutdown as you suggested. So far, so good :) Thanks for everyone's suggestions. Jon. -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Dept of Human Anatomy & Genetics & FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford tel/fax: 01865-282675 http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon -----Original Message----- From: Leendert Meyer [mailto:leen.meyer@home.nl] Sent: 13 October 2004 20:52 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] strange problem with SuSE 9.1 and networking On Wednesday 13 October 2004 21:30, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting Jonathan Brooks
: Hi,
The link light was/is on - and I forgot to mention that it works fine under windows. Having said all that - I just tried to boot the machine today and it worked :)
It still fails to get an IP address during the boot process, but magically by the time the login screen is put up it has configured itself. I wonder if there is some process that `/etc/init.d/network start` is waiting for, that gets started later in the boot process - which the (backgrounded) dhcpcd then finds and works? It seems a bit unlikely that it should take longer than the 5 second default timeout to get an IP address from DHCP - and it *always* fails - irrespective of the load on the network.
Any ideas?
Is it getting the same IP address everytime? Switching back and forth between Windows and Linux will mess w/ DHCP. Only one will have the lease info and the other will try and grab it, fail, then get a new address.
Possible solution: release the lease upon disconnection from the network. Edit /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp, and set: DHCLIENT_RELEASE_BEFORE_QUIT="yes" On Windows you'll also have to release the lease before/upon shutting down. Cheers, Leen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com