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i have an interesting problem...

i have mediaone cable modem service in los angeles.

client dhcp works fine both under windows and linsux, ie the machine gets its ip/nameserver/default route etc fine.

however it does *not* seem to work for my solaris sparc IPX...  if i plumb the
le0 interface and use /sbin/ifconfig le0 auto-dhcp primary, it times out every
time.

i *can* manually set the ip info, default route and access the net fine...

is there something odd about solaris client dhcp and/or dhcpagent?

im running 2.6 no patches (i just installed 2 mins ago)

any clues, i need this to work...

thanks

        Whatever ifconfig says your network interface is, you must create an entry for it in /etc. For instance, I have SOlaris7 x86 and a 3COM card:

lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
elx0: flags=4863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP> mtu 1500
        inet 24.128.180.37 netmask fffffc00 broadcast 24.128.183.255

        The elx0 iis the 3COM card. So I do the follwoing with it:

                touch /etc/dhcp.elx0

        Then reboot, an the machine is on the net. Hope this helps.

Jim

Jim