[ale] Take-2: From static to DHCP

[Michael E. Barker]

Keith Hopkins wrote:
> 
> Michael E. Barker wrote:
> 
> > Keith Hopkins wrote:
> >
> >>Michael E. Barker wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have @home (which has been in trouble for a while) through Comcast my
> >>>cable provider.  I just recieved an email saying I need to reconfigure
> >>>from static to DHCP with their new high-speed service or lose
> >>>connctivity.
> >>>
> >>>Does anyone have experience with this.  I have succesfully configured
> >>>DHCP for lan in the past but cable does not want to cooperate.
> >>>
> >>>Appreciativly
> >>>
> >>>-Michael
> >>>
> >>Hi Michael,
> >>
> >>   Now that I've actually read your message completely <grin>...What's really happening?  What does your system log report from the DHCP client?  Which client are you using?  Which distro?
> >>
> >>Lost again in Tokyo,
> >>   Keith
> >>
> >
> > I'm running Mandrake 8.1.  I used draknet via drakconf (conf tool in
> > mandrake) to configure the network device after confirming that I had
> > "dhcpcd" ( I also have dhclient ) and the syslog tells me that
> > everything configures successfully but times out waiting for a DHCP
> > server response:
> >
> > Jan 18 21:39:16 cc745308-a DrakX: writing host information to /etc/hosts
> > Jan 18 21:39:32 cc745308-a DrakX: running: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
> > restart
> > Jan 18 21:39:34 cc745308-a network: Setting network parameters:
> > succeeded
> > Jan 18 21:39:36 cc745308-a network: Bringing up interface lo:  succeeded
> > Jan 18 21:39:36 cc745308-a ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
> > Jan 18 21:40:36 cc745308-a dhcpcd[8782]: timed out waiting for a valid
> > DHCP server
> > response
> > Jan 18 21:40:36 cc745308-a ifup:  failed.
> > Jan 18 21:40:36 cc745308-a network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
> >
> > Drakconf then appears to probe for other devices of which it will find
> > none.
> >
> > The instructions in the email from Comcast are for Win but basically say
> > set for DHCP and remove all fields except the host name, which I
> > duplicated in Draknet.
> >
> > Still no luck.
> >
> > -Michael
> >
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
>    How many lan cards do you have in this machine?  Are you sure eth0 is the one connected to your cable modem?
> 
>    Please find the config file for dhcpcd (probably /etc/dhcpcd.conf) and post it please.
> 
> Lost in Tokyo,
>    Keith
> 
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Yup.  eth0 works great statically.  That's how I'm posting.

I found nothing for dhcpcd.conf not even a mention in the README.

Can you send me an example?

-Michael

PS I have not verified that this DHCP server for the provider is even
up.  I'll do that now.

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