Anybody have a clue ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sternberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 3:53 PM
To: iglu
Subject: RE: run dhcpcd in the background, even when disconnected?

I have a Linux machine that uses dhcpcd for DHCP requests.
Computer is always up and connected to the network. 

DHCP server at my ISP is a bit faulty - it's not available for a
long periods of time, I don't know why, maybe it's power failure,
or network failure, either way its not under my control. 

This is probably the cause that Linux machine from time to time is
left only with loopback 127.0.0.1 address, i.e. there is no another
address in /sbin/ifconfig output. Performing bind() to an old IP
from C applications fails. I suppose that lease renew time has
came, no DHCP server answered and dhcpcd shut down eth0. 

On the other side, Windows machine that is connected to the same
hub and configured with DHCP continues to have a valid (old) IPs.
I can surf, telnet and happily perform any network activities as
usual. 

How can you explain this ? 
Maybe it's my faulty configuration of dhcpcd ? But there is no
configuration file for this one and I can not use command line
options because it get called from binary /sbin/ifup... 

                                                        Michael. 
  

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