Neil, My symptoms are similar to what Stan is seeing but I do not have multiple networks to verify the DHCPing of data.
Stan, Have you had any off-list discussions that might help? Thanks, SBG I don't recall who it was or the details, but I have a laptop running Debian unstable that I set up to use DHCP. What's the problem you're having? -- Neil Roeth --- stan briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > steve, > > i believe that would be me. i have not gotten it > working completely. i > have found the commands ifup, ifdown, and ifstatus > and the configuration > files that seem to interact with the dhcp client > service. the commands > get all of the information that the client service > needs from the dhcp > server. it just doesn't do anything with the > information after getting > it. 'ifstatus eth0' shows all of the parameters that > one would expect to > get from the dhcp server. the file that contains the > values gets a new > date-time stamp each time that i ifdown and ifup > eth0 so i really do > believe that the client service is getting new > values. the only(!) > parameter that gets set is the ip address (and > netmask). no gateway. no > dns. no domain name. nothing else. > > what's been your experience and does anyone out > there have any idea why > a dhcp client service would receive these values and > do nothing with it? > > thanks, > stan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Steve Green > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 2:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TriLUG] DHCP on some distro (was it suse > or debian?) > > > Does anyone remember who it was that was having DHCP > problems with a loptop? I am having similar problems > with a laptop a want to know what the final > resolution > was. > > SBG > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : > http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : > http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : > http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : > http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
