On Tue 08 Apr 2003 at 23:26:54, Evrhet Tropick Milam said: > I am installing mandrake on a friends computer, and we are having > problems with the dhcp. dhclient, and dhcpcd just seem to timeout. We > are able to assign an ip and ping local computers on the network. Is > there anything special I need to do to get it to work? Were on resnet > btw.
Seen the same thing here in CAEDM. Try increasing the DHCP timeout to about 30 seconds and it might work. If not, plug a hub into his port, sniff the packets, and see what DHCP info is getting passed around. The reason this happens -- at least with the CAEDM systems -- is that OIT's switches are set that when the link goes down -- even for the few milliseconds it takes to reset the NIC -- the switch turns the port off. Then the switch listens for some activity on the port, so when it notices that there's something on the port that's sending packets, the switch says "oh wait, guess I'd better turn this port back on." That delay can last several seconds, enough to cause DHCP to time out. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
