Hi David At 03:15 18.07.2002, you wrote: >Hi. Me again! > >By way of a reminder, I am the bloke who has a perfectly functional >Eigerstein box who wants to upgrade to Dachstein or Bering but found >that Dachstein would recognise the NICs and run the tulip driver as >required, find a good 10baseT link beat, but then DHClient couldn't pick >up IP info and DHCP isn't serving IP info internally. > >I have been playing around with this router of mine with the following >results: > >1. I couldn't find any DHClient and DHCPD logs. Is that >significant? When the box boots progress info DOES appear on the >screen. > >2. I tried the Dachstein distro that has been set up for Bigpond >cable but that was the same. > >3. I tried Bering rc3 and that was the same as well. > >Could it be that the firewall is blocking the DHCP data from the ISP? >They're broadcasting on 10.96.4.1. That would assume that the Dachstein >filters were different to the Eigerstein filters and that Shorewall was >blocking the same packets as Dachstein.
It definitely could be try ipchains -L input you should see something like DENY all ----l- 10.0.0.0/8 anywhere n/a and have a look in your messages log instructions how to overcome this can be found in http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04115.html HTH Erich THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html