HI,

after installing a router (vigor 2500we) I changed Red Hat 9.0 network from static IP to obtain an ip-address from the router, but it doesn't work.

When restarting the network, the message "no DHCPOFFER" appears in /var/messages.

ifconfig shows that no ip is assigned.

All windows98se clients work fine and running through the RH-doc's several times is driving me mad.

Can somebody please help me on that?

Which networkfiles are really affected?

I'm dealing with:

/etc/hosts (only the loopback device is in here)

/etc/resolv.conf (is removed)

/etc/sysconfig/network (NETWORKING=yes)

/etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

Hi.

Just for testing purposes, turn off your firewall and see if that is effecting it at all.

as root...

ifdown eth0

service iptables stop

ifup eth0 (assuming your network adapter is called eth0).

Let us know how you go. It does look like it's all alright though.

>Craig

Thank you. But it didn't work

/var/log/messages says:

localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval xx

localhost dhclient: no DHCPOFFERS received.

Why isn't it the gateway's IP ?

Is the cable change detected? (10base2 to cat5)

Bernd

Try, on the client, 1) killall dhcpcd 2) dhcpcd -B
perhaps it will work, maybe it is a timing issue. I had to put a "sleep" between bringing up my nic driver and adding an entry to routing table.

Sorry! dhcp deamon is not running. The router is managing ip's!

Aha, dhcpcd ... dhcp *client* daemon ... on the client :

dhcpcd -B

Today I was able to solve the issue. Prob was the nic's eprom cfg. The card always listened to 10 base 2 instead of 10 base t! After changing with the setup utility now the ip-address is provided by the router.

Maybe somebody can give me a hint how to change the hostname? Unfortunatly now the routers name is used!