Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-25 Thread Klaus Ita
Hi David! this is only a solution for as long as your dhcp-server does not change your designated ip-address. but most of the times this works for a long long time unless you are in an environment where you pay per minute, or prividers want to make sure you cannot easily have a server environment

Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-24 Thread David Ballantyne
Hi Klaus, I did this: > try to put these in a manual network configuration ... > would look like this: > in /etc/network/interfaces > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 66.203.194.60 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 66.203.194.255 > gateway 66.203.194.1 >

Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-24 Thread Klaus Ita
Hi David! * David Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-24 09:00: > Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried them out, but still have no joy. > > If I try setting a gateway by hand: for some reason i suspect your kernel being the reason for all that. have you also updated that one when u swit

Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-23 Thread David Ballantyne
r try pinging 66.102.9.104 than www.google.com in order to find > out if everything works. > > good luck, > klaus > > * David Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-23 22:24: > > > From: David Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: problems with

Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-23 Thread Klaus Ita
Hi David! sorry for the mail i sent u in "private" ... maybe (if u are in control of the dhcp-server) the default-gateway is not set? you can influence the routing table yourself. mine looks like that Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use

Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-23 Thread Klaus Ita
.102.9.104 than www.google.com in order to find out if everything works. good luck, klaus * David Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-23 22:24: > From: David Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-22 Thread David Ballantyne
Hi Klaus, Sorry for not responding sooner, but I'm not subscribed to the list, so it took me a while to find your messeage. In response to your questions: > what does 'route -an' give you? I first ran /sbin/dhclient, and I get all the normal looking stuff. Then running 'route -n' gives: ansu

Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-21 Thread Kurt Jaeke
Hi! Most likely your /etc/resolv.conf is wasted. Happens alltoo often in my university. There is a "good" solution, but I didn't bother to look for it yet. What I do: $dhclient $vim /etc/resolv.conf (there probably is an empty "search" or "domain" entry -- remove it) Only then, fire up your brow

Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-21 Thread Klaus Ita
PROTECTED]> > Subject: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > Last night I upgraded my woody system to Sarge, and my dhclient broke. > Before the upgrade I was using

problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

2004-04-21 Thread David Ballantyne
Hi, Last night I upgraded my woody system to Sarge, and my dhclient broke. Before the upgrade I was using the package that came with woody (dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.2) and it worked 'out of the box'. That is, all I had to do was type /sbin/dhclient and I was fine. After the upgrade, dhcp3-c