by Alex » Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:35:47
when i boot my computer (slackware8) and it tries to fetch an IP
through dhcpcd it just hangs and waits, as if there was no server, and
says:
dhcpcd[74]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response
but when i run it manually once more from the prompt after that, it
works.
what could be the problem?
/ alex k
1. dhcpcd gets dynamic IP and nameserver
Debian's dhcpcd .70-5 deb pkg wasn't working with my Intel eth0
and potato kernel 2.1.125 so I couldn't get a DSL account. Now I'm set,
thanks to Sergei Viznyuk. /etc/dhcpc/ has a file written by dhcpcd
which has my IP and the DNS nameserver assigned by ISP.
To get your IP assigned dynamically as by dial-up or ADSL or
cable modem, and to find out nameserver IP's--it's also necessary
to upgrade dhcpcd for kernels 2.1.125 and up, and for certain
netcards such as Intel--
ftp://phystech.com/pub
get the latest dhcpcd dhcp client by Sergei Viznyuk [applause, cheers]
which today is 1.3.17-pl2
untar ungzip cd
make ; make install
Now you have /sbin/dhcpcd
Get your old dhcpcd out of the way--it was /usr/sbin/dhcpcd
In Debian it seemed logical to load dhcpcd using /etc/init.d/network
script--
most of this varies according to site-- "dhcpcd -h username" wasn't
working
from /etc/init.d/dhcpc script's line using start-stop-daemon, so--
#! /bin/sh
PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
ISP_USER_ID=username
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo
if dhcpcd -h $ISP_USER_ID -d eth0 ; then
echo -n "DHCP succeeded..."
logger "DHCP succeeded..."
else
echo -n "DHCP failed..."
logger "DHCP failed... "
IPADDR=192.168.1.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add ${NETWORK} famlan
[ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
fi
-Bob Dodds
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