I have gotten dhcpcd to get me configured with Comcast. This command is all that it takes to get the IP and configure the interface: dhcpcd -d eth1 Then, running the route command makes things work fine.
I got a seven day lease which by now should be trying to renew itself, but, I can't see that it is trying to do this. Meanwhile, I see this in my firewall logs. eth1 PROTO=17 10.133.184.1:67 255.255.255.255:68 ( I accept these packets.) This says that a dhcp server is broadcasting to dhcp clients, which, is not part of rfc 2131. dhcpcd is running, but doesn't seem to answer. Which is not surprising, since there is no process listening on port 68 on my client. So, my two questions are: What is comcast (I assume it comcast) doing sending broadcast packets to dhcp clients? Is it safe to ignore them? Last time, they declared me a static ip user and turned off my modem. Second, is there a way to inquire of the status of a running dhcpcd? That is to say, how could I find out if the dhcpcd is trying to renew? I don't see anything in the logs about it. Thanks, Joel _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
