On Jan 18, 2008 6:50 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Friday 18 January 2008, Marko Kocić wrote:
> > I'm running gentoo on my dual boot windows laptop.
> >
> > I use dhcp to connect to the the internet through cable modem.
> > Sometimes (in the evenings) it just fails to automatically obtain IP
> > address from dhcp server (timeouts).
> > I tried different settings in /etc/conf.d/net file (timeout and
> > different dhcpc options) and switching between dhclient and dhcpd,
> > but with no luck.
> >
> > When I reboot to windows it just works. I contacted my ISP, but they
> > said they don't give support for Linux.
> >
> > Is there a way to configure dhcp/dhclient to behave exactly like DHCP
> > in Windows XP?
>
> Where is the dhcp server? On the cable provider's network, or on the
> modem itself?
On cable providers network.
> I have found that dhcp can do weird stuff sometimes and Windows client
> don't always follow the standard method. Then again, what else is new?
> My first diagnostic step would be to get another machine on the network
> and sniff dhcp traffic when using Windows and Gentoo to see what the
> difference is.
I can't do that, cause I don't have switch/hub, just a cable modem directly
conencted to laptop.
I was looking for some magic "enable windows emulation mode" for dhcp.
> alan
>
Thanks,
Marko
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