On Saturday 19 January 2008 22:09:50 Marko Kocić wrote: > > I wonder if my similar problem is related to what you report here: I am > > using dhcpcd and ifplug with my ADSL router, which acts as the dhcp > > server on my LAN. For some reason ifplug does not always manage to get > > an IP address from the router and I end up with an APIPA address. > > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop/start gets it going again. This problem only > > occurs if I disconnect and then reconnect the ethernet cable. No such > > problem exists when I boot the machine with the cable already connected > > to the NIC. I haven't changed timeouts or anything else from the dhcpcd > > defaults. I have always attributed this problem to a somewhat slow dhcp > > server on the router. > > It is similar, with a difference that /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > doesn't help. I tried > enlarging timeout but with no help. > > > As a note: WinXP machines do not have any such problem. Even though > > they may end up with a APIPA address, they will in minute or so drop it > > and acquire a 10.10.10.XXX domain address from the router. dhcpcpd does > > not seem to have this flexibility. > > I noticed that in most cases after I boot to windows, when I reboot > back to linux I can't connect. > When I reboot back to windows, net is up. > > When it fails I noticed that it send DHCP requests, but doesn't get a > response. > > I tried dhclient, dhcpd and pump, and the results are allways the > same. It happens in the evenings, when internet traffic is high.
Windows is not releasing the lease correctly, so the CM ignores request from the same MAC address for a new leasr, workround is to reboot the cm whem you reboot to gentoo. This works in the UK YMMV elsewhere. -- Tony Davison -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
