On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Corbett J. Klempay wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > > Hey all...I just installed 6.1 (switching from RH 6.0). It's pretty
> > > slick, btw. Anyway, my problem is this: I can plug this machine (Dell
> > > Latitude CPt 333, 3c574 nic) in at home to my cable modem (Time Warner
> > > Roadrunner), and have it get networking going just by typing 'dhcpcd'.
> > > That's it. (I didn't try setting it to do it on boot; I just did that
> > > since I've been here at work). However, at work, if I get out of NT and
> > > into Linux, typing 'dhcpcd' will simply time out after a while. I have it
> > > set to acquire via DHCP on boot now, and it fails when it tries then as
> > > well. At first I might think it is something with the way the network is
> > > set up here at work, but I don't think that should be it; when I still had
> > > RH 6.0 on this machine, I could get an IP at work just fine. Any
> > > suggestions?
> > >
> >
> > Could you please see if this URL helps you?
> >
> > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/ccable.html
>
> I think you may have misread my above message; I can get an IP via DHCP
> when I am connected to my cable modem...it's at work on the regular
> network here that I cannot get an IP. (while I used to be able to get an
> IP at work when I had Red Hat 6.0)
>
Ok, i know whats going on here now. Redhat defaults to pump for dhcp, We
default to dhcpcd. set your BOOTPROTO="pump" in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX. You may have to switch between
dhcpcd and pump, linuxconf should facilitate that easily.
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