[olug] dhcpcd problem

[Nick Walter]

I've had some icky experiences trying to get RH 7.2 to play well with DHCP
on a cable modem.  The problems weren't network card related, it was just
Red Hat having some very poorly thought out startup scripts for implementing
DHCP on a network interface.  My workaround was simply to tell Red Hat to
start the machine with an (invalid) static IP address and then run pump from
my own script to get the DHCP working.

All my RH 7.2 machines seem to have pump installed already, but I do
"install-everything" installations.  If your RH 7.2 installation doesn't
have pump, it will be available on the RH 7.2 install CDs.

I'd recommend making sure pump is installed and trying Nate's idea:  Set
your network card to NOT use dhcp and then start dhcp manually with
"/sbin/pump -i eth0" to see if that solves your problem.  If it does, you
just need your own little script to start pump automatically on boot.

Nick Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: Tanya Loughead [mailto:tanyaloughead at cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:59 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: RE: [olug] dhcpcd problem


Yes--Brian-- I had called Cox yesterday, and they suggested the exact same
thing: un-plugging the cable modem for a few minutes  to re-set it-- and
THEN plugging it into the Linux machine.  No luck, sadly.  Also, I re-booted
my Linux laptop after doing so.

And-- also, about the Xircom card... sounds like others have been having
problems with it.  Are your problems very similar to those which I am
describing?  I just want to rule everything out before having to buy a new
ethernet card.
Also, the card was "recognized"-- so?  Hmmm...
--tanya

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Roberson [mailto:roberson at olug.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:50 AM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Re: [olug] dhcpcd problem
>
>
> Excellent.. now we have a very good starting point...
>
> My first question is...
> 	Did you reset the cable modem when you disconnected it from
> the windows
> machine and moved it to the linux machine? ( I have found this HIGHLY
> effective ) give that a shot first, prior to any configuration
> changes, as it
> sounds like your config is at a very good starting point.
>
>
>
> On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:17 am, Tanya Loughead wrote:
> > Thanks everyone for trying to help me.  To better describe my
> problem, AND
> < SNIP>
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