If you are still having trouble with this, be sure that you have
the most recent and correct drivers for the system... I had the right info,
and wrong drivers and it did the same thing to me. Hope this helps you!
Fred
At 10:55 AM 8/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I am in the process of doing a Southwestern Bell DSL self
>install. I have the modem/bridge connected and solid lights
>on the dsl and atm indicators. According to the docs, I am
>jammin'.. However when I try to bring up eth0 with dhcp
>enabled it times out and the interface is dropped. ifconfig
>shows eth0 with no ipaddress during this time. A ping
>attempt shows trying to ping from 0.0.0.0. I guess all this
>makes sense. The interface comes up fine here at the office
>using the dhcpd that came with RedHat.
>
>Any ideas? I have a call into tech support but I thought I
>would try to get a jump on it. Do I need anything else for
>this to work? We have dsl here at the office but it uses
>static ipaddresses so the dhcp was not an issue.
>
>I find a lot of references to problems with pump but few
>specifics. What do I need to do to try a dhcp client rather
>than pump? /sbin/ifup calls pump directly Do I have to
>tweak ifup to get it to call dhcp instead?
>
>I assume that I cam manually start the interface using
>ifconfig -i eth0 up. and then call pump but that does not
>work either. I can see the lights on the bridge flicker and
>tcpdump reports 14 packets recieved but no output. calling
>tcpdump -i eth0 gives the error tht the interface is not up
>even though ifconfig is doing the no ip address thing. Is
>there some other tool to sniff the interface so I can see
>what is happening?
>
>Any help appreciated.
>
>Bret
>
>
>
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