On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 Aaron Matteson wrote : >Srinivasan S became daring and sent these 2.9K bytes, > > Hi Folks > > > > Yesterday I had posted on a problem I have with the DHCP not responding to my cable modem setup. I got a lot of answers but didn't change the situation. > > > > My setup : > > eth0 - local n/w > > eth1 - cable modem, set to request for DHCP > > The error is that I do not get a client IP. > > (This was the error I had previously also.) > > > > I went ahead and did a little more .. since this is a dual boot I booted windows and got my ip status. Then in Fedora I set it to the ip obtained via windows, set the gateway and subnet mask and the primary DNS and secondary DNS. Activated it and it worked beautifully. > > > > This means that my NIC is fine, the modem is communicating to the correct NIC.The only problem is now the DHCP client configuration. In addition I also turned off Firewall and the DHCPD that was running on eth0. No success. > > > > Can someone help me on this now that I have been able to zero in that the only issue is setting up dhcp client. > >I recently engaged this exact problem exc. with a WinXP machine. How i >solved it was to grab the IP/dns server addresses by hand from the WinXP >machine and enter them statically to the linux box. This can be done >because you are getting a static address anyways, the DHCP server is >just a formality to make things easier. > >Just enter the ip addy, subnet and the gateway manually, then add the >dns servers to /etc/resolv.conf then powerdown the modem then power it >back up (not from the soft shutdown button on the top of the modem, just >pull the plug and put it back in) and you should be set. > >This is what i had to do, given you are having the same issue as i had, >i suspect this should resolve your problem. > >-- > /\o Aaron M Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us > /\/ > /\ Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, > / \ it should be hard to understand! >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Email! > \ / > X All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander > / \ are lost --jrr tolkien > > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@redhat.com >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Hi Aaron I already did what you just described and it works. Does this mean there is no way to setup dhcp client ? Doesn't appeal that something is possible in stupid windows and not in linux .. hmmm Regards Srini <A target="_blank" HREF="http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp"><IMG SRC="http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbox.htm@Bottom" BORDER=0 VSPACE=0 HSPACE=0 HEIGHT=74 WIDTH=496></a>