> Isn't DHCP supposed to broadcast to 255.255.255.255, looking for
> a server? That's what mine does here at home. Can you get a box
> with a known working DHCP (Linux, Windows, whatever...) client to
> get a lease?
>
> Cheers,
> Dennis
Uhhh, I guess that makes sense -- I don't know. My own mandrake box
gave me no problems -- I just put the dns entries and selected dhcp;
zoom. debian is confusing me 'cause I don't know what _not_ to mess with
:/
I found this in /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info
(on my own box, which works fine|is this auto-generated info?):
IPADDR=192.168.1.111
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
DNS=128.223.32.35,128.223.21.15,128.223.6.9
DHCPSID=192.168.1.1
DHCPGIADDR=0.0.0.0
DHCPSIADDR=0.0.0.0
DHCPCHADDR=00:50:04:85:BF:08
DHCPSHADDR=00:20:78:CF:C4:21
DHCPSNAME=
LEASETIME=518400
RENEWALTIME=259200
REBINDTIME=453600
that's that, but mandrake does not seem to use /etc/dhclient.conf
(there's an /etc/dhclient-script, though)
So is the first step to manually set up the routing
tables, then call dhclient eth0??
(btw, we got the right module loaded, and ifconfig
shows eth0 but no address resolution... this line:
inet addr:192.168.1.111 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0)
Wow, so I just realized that I'm running dhcpcd, and that's
not part of debian... so, more help please.
bumming ben
