Setting eth0 KO during boot

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 18:52 +0700, Philippe wrote:
> I just have ADSL with a router D-LINK500G (192.168.1.1). It works
> perfectly if I have a fixed IP adress (192.168.1.100). By te way, my
> router is acting as a DHCP server.
> 
> Well now if via the GUI I say for eth0 : IP adress automatically
> obtain...", and I reboot, FC2 , I have the error during boot :
> 
> Determining IP info for eth0 failed. 
> 
> My router is still on so I can imagine that it is ready to give me an
> dynamic IP ...And then, I cannot access even my router via ping :
> network unreachable.
> 
> I install the dhcpd process, thinking that I missed a RPM. No change.

The package you need is dhclient, but I expect you already have that.
Are you absolutely sure that the DHCP server is running on your router?
Are there any other machines on your network that work with the DHCP
server?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>