dhcp issue

[Gbenga Shobowale]

On 9/2/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Gbenga Shobowale wrote:
>
> > I just upgrade to FC5 before then I had 2 NIC in one with static IP
> > and other on DHCP, however after the upgrade my machine can't seem to
> > up up an IP from the modem...I Check the card its configured properly
> > and the one with a static IP works fine...I put the link on a windows
> > machine and it work..hence I think FC is having a problem with
> > DHCP..any ideas anyone?
>
> Maybe eth0 and eth1 have been swapped?
> What does ifconfig say?
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:53:00:E9:0C
          inet addr:172.16.1.2  Bcast:172.16.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::201:53ff:fe00:e90c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:530 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:25415 (24.8 KiB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0xcc00

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:5B:38:06:EA
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:5bff:fe38:6ea/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6283 (6.1 KiB)  TX bytes:5292 (5.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:286 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:286 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:26190 (25.5 KiB)  TX bytes:26190 (25.5 KiB)

I swapped it no dice...
Is there some thing in the kernel that could be causing this issue?

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