Determining IP information for eth0 failed
Sami Maisniemi
sami.maisniemi at netsonic.fi
Thu Apr 1 19:56:38 UTC 2004
Hi,
RH 9.0 and Fedora Core 1 have a similar problem with some network cards.
I found the following solution:
Add to the configuration file '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0':
check_link_down() {
return 1;
}
If you indeed have the same problem, this should work.
Regards Sami
Jeroen Van Goey wrote:
>Thanks for the support, but it still won't work. So, let's recapitulate my settings:
>
>*Fast Ethernet 10/100M PCI network card
>*FC1 Gnome
>*module 8139too loaded
>*When I try to activate eth0 via redhat-config-network or dhclient, I recieve the error
>"Determining IP information for eth0.... Failed"
>
>In /etc/hosts I have:
>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>
>In etc/modules.conf I have:
>alias usb-controller usb-uhci
>alias eth0 8139too
>
>(deleted the "options 8139too io=0xe400 irq=11")
>
>In $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo I have:
>DEVICE=lo
>IPADDR=127.0.0.1
>NETMASK=255.0.0.0
>NETWORK=127.0.0.0
># If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian,
># you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example)
>BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
>ONBOOT=yes
>NAME=loopback
>
>In /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 I have:
>USERCTL=yes
>PEERDNS=yes
>TYPE=Ethernet
>DEVICE=eth0
>HWADDR=00:40:f4:6f:b4:90
>BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>
>(Information for NETMASK, DOMAIN, IPADDR, DHCP_HOSTNAME, GATEWAY, NETWORK and BROADCAST
>seem to be missing. Should I fill in these myself,(and with which values), or should
>DHCP/something else do this for me?)
>
>The command "ifconfig -a" gives:
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:6F:B4:90
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:236210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:14275029 (13.6 Mb) TX bytes:288990 (282.2 Kb)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000
>
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:5939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:5939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:5271644 (5.0 Mb) TX bytes:5271644 (5.0 Mb)
>
>(The IPs for inet addr, Bcast and Mask are missing)
>
>I can only ping localhost, every other IP gives "Network unreachable". Defining a static
>IP in the GUI of redhat-config-network doesn't change a thing (and my ISP works with
>dynamic IPs anyway, so I don't think I need to define any static IP).
>
>PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.140 ms
> .....
>64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.132 ms
>--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
>6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5012ms
>rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.126/0.135/0.140/0.004 ms, pipe 2
>
>In the GUI-interface for redhat-config-network, I selected "automatically obtain IP
>adress settings with DHCP", so I should get my DNS information from there. But even if I
>do specify the domain of my ISP, and a primary and secondary nameserver in
>/etc/resolv.conf, I still get the dreaded "Determining IP information for eth0...
>failed"error when I try to activate eth0.
>
>If I start DHCP Client manually (command "dhclient"), I get the (error)message:
>Listening on LPF/eth0/00:40:f4:6f:b4:90
>Sending on LPF/eth0/00:40:f4:6f:b4:90
>Listening on LPF/lo/
>Sending on LPF/lo/
>Sending on Socket/fallback
>DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> ....
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
>DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
>No DHCPOFFERS received.
>No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
>
>(looks like no broadcast is received)
>
>
>I'm not sure it's relevant, but when the fibrecable from the ISP comes into my house, it
>goes to a switch> From there one cable goes to a Windows PC, and one to an
>ex-Windows-now-Limux PC (mine, the one with troubles)>
>
> printer
> /
>pc1 (windows)
> \
> \
> Switch/hub--------cablemodem-----fibrecable-------myISP---------Internet
> /
> /
>pc2 (Linux)
>
>I mention this, because I was thinking that I should search the solution into
>masquarading, gateways, etc.
>
>
>The output of "route -n"
>Kernel IP routing table
>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
>169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
>127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
>
>The output of "iptables -L -n -v" (because I tought it maybe could be a firewall related
>problem):
>Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
>pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
>2728 303K RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>
>Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
>pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
> 0 0 RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>
>Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 277 packets, 55759 bytes)
>pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
>
>Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
>pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
>277 55759 ACCEPT all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
> 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>icmp type 255
> 0 0 ACCEPT esp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
> 0 0 ACCEPT ah -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
> 0 0 ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
> 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>state NEW tcp dpt:25
> 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>state NEW tcp dpt:80
> 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>state NEW tcp dpt:21
> 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>state NEW tcp dpt:22
>2451 247K REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
>
>
>Thanks for the help, looking forward to the solution,
>Jeroen
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