On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:05:03PM -0600, Robin Damm wrote: > I'm assuming the client eventually obtains a lease.
Actually, this was the odd thing. It didn't obtain a new lease at
bootup -- it actually used a cached lease (ie, couldn't contact the DHCP
server but fell back to what it usually used).
> Does the problem persist if you manually release/renew the IP?
>
> # dhclient -r
> # dhclient ep0
>
> A cache problem perhaps?
If I did this after it used the cached lease it actually started talking
to the DHCP server, so, yes, you were correct here.
I've actually solved the problem now. I can't understand quite what
I'd done wrong (because it was working earlier). For some reason I
hadn't changed the default media for the if from 10baseT/UTP to
10base2/BNC -- although it should have done so in the startup scripts.
Instead, I've now got /sbin/ifconfig ep0 media 10base2/BNC in
/etc/dhclient-enter-hooks, which gets executed _before_ dhclient starts
searching. It all works fine now.
Sorry for bothering everybody, it might have been a mistake on my
part.
-lewiz.
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