[ale] 3Com905/DHCP problem - HHHEEEELLLPPP!!!! (\'m drowningover here)

[Ken Nagorski]

HI there,

	That's is weird that you had those problems with mandrake and
redhat that both use the same set of scripts for managing the ethernet. I
recently set up two redhat boxes (a break from the norm of debian or
slackware) one for a raid card setup and one for a firewall. We have had
nothing but that same sort of trouble with the redhat box. I tried to
track down what that ifup script does. I can find nothing. BUT! You go in
and ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx net 255.255.252.0 up and you are fine...

	On the firewall I balsted redhat and went with debian and I have
no trouble what so ever with the same hardware. I couldn't make heads or
tails of it. Hmm, OK that was just my two cents 

	The point of this is that it may not be your hardware. I would
test it one some other things before claiming that it is foo bared! 


Thank you
Ken




On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:



> I don't know if this is a normal failure mode for Ethernet cards
> in general, but I've had two different Netgear cards give up the
> ghost, and the first symptom was that they became unable to
> receive broadcast packets. Since DHCP uses IP broadcasts to
> exchange address information, DHCP failures occurred. They still worked,
> for a while, if I configured an IP address manually, but within a
> month or so of the DHCP problems turning up, they both quit working
> entirely :-(
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> "I. Herman" wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah...as a Matter of fact, I just pulled it out of another Linux box
> > earlier today (system was installed w/ the card already in there).  That box
> > was running older stuff (Mandrake 7.0).
> > 
> > When I try to do ifup eth0  and it tries to get the DHCP info I do see a few
> > flashes, but that's bout it.
> > 
> > > Hmmm... Very interesting.  I have been using that card for a while now and
> > have had no problems.  As a matter of fact all distro\'s that I have played
> > with have auotconfigured this card without a problem.
> > >
> > > Have you tried it in a windows box to see if it works properly?  and
> > before actually trying to obtain a lease through dhcp, have you tried
> > bringing the nic up and down via ifconfig and watching to see if it sees any
> > packets on the network?
> > >
> > > -Patrick
> > 
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