Hello,

My ISP finished some 'upgrades' on its infrastructure. The result is that I am having great difficulty in connecting to the internet.

I have 3 operating systems on my box - XP, Fedora 8 and Feota 12.

I connect using an ethernet card, using dhcp. In fedora 12, the ethernet card is controlled be networkmanager. After the ISP completed their upgrades, I was not able to connect. I tried to connect manually using

There was an error message -

I read the advice here: http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...-argument.html, and removed all but the important lines.
But even after that neither ifup eth0 or dhclient eth0 works.

In fedora 8, the ethernet card is activated by ifup eth0 in /etc/rc.local. I was able to connect on a couple of occasions, but that too stopped working. I tried both ifup eth0, dhclient eth0, and tried to use the gui( which fires the dhclient command), but none worked.

If it is of help to anybody, when I use windows, it takes about 2 minutes to get an ip (earlier it was immediate). Sometimes that doesnt work and I have to click on "repair" whereupon it starts working.

Obviously my ISP has been up to something, could anybody hazard an informed guess as to whats going on? Any ideas on how to connect to the net using linux?

Note that I havent made any changes to my hardware, and things worked perfectly before.

If you want to ask for an IP address using DHCP just do it, forget about ifup.

Debian comes with dhclient, maybe fedora too.

Just run dhclient eth0, it will show debug getting the IP address.

If you don't have the command you may have dhcpd3 or something like that, it should do the trick