On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 23:28:22 -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > Andrei Popescu said: > < please post the output of runing 'dhclient' as root. > > I got the following (replacing the IP numbers with x): > > Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 > Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. > All rights reserved. > > Please contribute if you find this software useful. > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html > > sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 > sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 > Listening on LPF/sit0/<null> > Sending on LPF/sit0/<null> > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:14:85:14:78:5c > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:14:85:14:78:5c > Listening on LPF/lo/<null> > Sending on LPF/lo/<null> > Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net > DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 > DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 > DHCPACK from xx.xx.xx.x > bound to xx.xx.xxx.xxx -- renewal in 119863 seconds. > > I can now connect to the Internet successfully. What changes should I make > in my init files to start dhclient at boot time?
I think this should be set up in /etc/network/interfaces. Here is what I have in this file (comments snipped): auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp If this does not work for you then you can try to change the eth0 part to auto eth0 #allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
