On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 10:24 +0300, Anuerin Diaz wrote: > On 8/13/05, Dean Michael C. Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 13:35 +0800, Samuel Philip Gilera Hayag wrote: > > > hello, im subscribed to meridian telekom's residential account, so > > > normally, i get an ip address thru dhcpcd, dati nag wowork naman sya, > > > bigla nalang ayaw, i get "timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server > > > response" error. wala naman ako binabago, dual boot ako sa windows xp, > > > so i tested it there, nag work naman, so hinde yung cables or yung > > > antenna yung problem. im using slackware linux 10. any help would be > > > much appreciated, salamat po > > > > I don't subscribe to Meridian Telekom's service, but I do think that > > what you're referring to is the DHCP client -- because dhcpd is supposed > > to be run by the DHCP server which gives out IP addresses to clients > > looking for IP addresses. > > <snip> > > or maybe he was talking about dhcpcd. i used it in place of dhclient > to get an ip from my cable modem connection (no, its not meridian). >
Oh, my bad. I thought it was a typo on his part. :D At any rate, PLDT installed a (faulty) modem/router at my place, and I sometimes had problems with dhclient. Maybe I should be using dhcpcd too. :D [OT] Would you know what would cause a network appliance's Ethernet interface to break? Would disconnecting the other end of an RJ45-ended CAT 5 UTP and reconnecting it on a different machine do it? Or could it just be a case of cheap hardware and freak occurrences? -- Dean Michael C. Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key 0x08AE6EAC Mobile +63 928 7291459 http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com/
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