on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:21:39AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote about How have I misconfigured DHCP?: > I'm moving to a DHCP arrangement for my home network. I've set up the DHCP > server, and it responds appropriately to requests from two of the three > other computers on the network (one debian, one WinXP). From the other > debian computer on the network, it responds if I manually do: > > pump -i eth0 > > but on startup it doesn't obtain an address. Therfore, of course, > services depending on the address (openAFS, NFS mounts) don't start > either.
Things to check:
- Is pump started when the system boots i.e. ls -l
/etc/rc?.d/*pump*
- Check dmesg output
- Check /var/log/messages
- Sniff DHCP (actually BOOTP) traffic on your DHCP server while
your machine boots
Things I noticed with DHCP clients:
- pump: does not try long enough (even when changing the parameters)
to obtain an address
- dhcpcd: seems to loose its address after being up for about a month
I switched to udhcpc, which works really good. Moreover, it is quite
small.
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