Failing DHCP

[Erik Bågfors]

ifconfig blaha up just brings the interface up but doesn't change it's settings
ifup blaha brings the interface up with the correct settings.  That
means it runs dhclient for you if you have the interface set to dhcp.

Most likely you want ifup 90% or the time.

Regards,
Erik


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:41:05 -0400, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:23:48 +0900, Jan Morén <jan.moren at lucs.lu.se> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry - I was a bit unclear. That error is at the start of the dhclient
> > phase as well. sit0 is, as far as I know, just a pseudo-device acting as
> > a bridge between ip4 and ip6.
> 
> I did not know that. :-)
> 
> > When you are getting messages about dhclient trying to contact the dhcp
> > server, is it using eth0 or sit0? It is using eth0 for me, and I'm not
> > entirely sure that what's supposed to be happening.
> 
> I get the same error message about sit0, but it successfully gets an
> IP address for eth0. I brought my card up a little differently, but it
> may just be a different name for the same thing. I used:
> 
> sudo ifconfig eth0 up
> 
> > In any case, the card does get an entry in ifconfig - but only with an
> > ip6 address. No real ip4 address, and no routing entry.
> 
> Mine was doing the same thing initially. Unfortunately it was a late
> night fix-it session, so I don't recall what I did to get it working.
> The final fix consisted of these three steps:
> 
> modprobe bmac
> ifconfig eth0 up
> dhclient
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> 
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