On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote about, Re: Network Problem.:
> You don't say enough for a definitive answer. Here are a couple of thoughts,
> though ...
>
> 1. Am I correct in assuming that we are talking about the exact same
> computer, with no software or hardware updates, in the two locations? If so,
> skip the rest of this item. If not, make sure that the tulip module is
> actually finding the NIC and assigning the (presumably eth0) interface to it
> (making sure it shows up in "ifconfig -a" will suffice for this). And think
> about what else might be different.
>
> 2. DHCP servers can be set up to restrict how they assign leases. Based on
> the addreses you are getting when booted in Windows, can you tell if you are
> even on the same DHCP server as before? Some DHCP server authenticate, for
> example, by hostname; you most often see this woth cable-modem setups.
>
> 3. There might be a newer version of dhcpcd available than the one on your
> RH system, but I don't recall reading about any substantial bugs in the base
> one.
Ray sorta summed it up well, however i would like to add the following.
If Ray is correct in his assumption (1) the it could be the fact that the
modem sees another nic, if i were to change my nic my modem would not do
anything at all as it is programmed to accept the MAC address of my presant
card. The provider must change the MAC address in my modem if i change the
NIC.
There are a lot of DHCP providers here in EU who work on such a basis and
not a hostname basis.
The other point i would like to make is that it "seems" according to;
http://www.scyld.com/expert/100mbps.html
That the tulip driver is the correct one, BUT please check for yourself.
Normally speaking a PCI card should get loaded without any IRQ conflicts,
unless the BIOS is told to do otherwise by its user.
That tells me that.
Either you are using the same modem/computer but with another NIC and that
has a different MAC address, or Rays point about a hostname configuration
is the answer, OR your provider is like pacbell you need pppoe on top of
dhcp.
>
> At 11:38 AM 6/19/00 -0500, Chuck Wilson wrote:
> >Hello!
> >I am running a WindOSE 98/Redhat 6.2 dual boot. I am trying to connect to a
> >network at my school, where addresses are assigned via a DHCP server.
> >Windows finds my network adapter (Netgear FA310TX Fast Ethernet) and
> >connects to the network. Redhat finds the Ethernet adapter and loads tulip
> >to run it, which seems right, but then, I believe, when it tries to connect
> >to the DHCP server, it fails, as at boot up it says that loading the network
> >has failed.
> > Just a few months ago, during my last semester, I was in a different
> >building and redhat had no problems whatsoever. Any ideas? COuld it be
> >possible my school's DHCP server somehow changed to a format redhat doesn't
> >understand? Is there a better DHCP client available? Am I sniffing down the
> >wrong path here?
>
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