Craig -- At this point, you've pretty much gotten all the help that you can get with a general description of your problem. To get more advice, you are simply going to have to give us some details of your setup. The SR FAQ referenced at the end of this message lists the basics. As to the specifics:
1. DHCP assignments to the LAN -- "don't want to assign" and "just refuses" are not technical descriptions. And "Most of the time" is really puzzling -- do you really mean that it *sometimes* works, somethimes fails? (If so, what can you tell us about when it works versus when it doesn't?) Is dhcpd running in the process list when lease-assignment fails? Is its configuration file set up in a way consistent with the network addressing and interface assignments you are using? Is dhcpd logging anything meaningful about these failures? Do you get any dhcpd-related errors reported during boot/init? Are the Dachstein and Bering setups using the same internal LAN network addresses? Are the internal hosts running any firewalling software (what OSs are involved, BTW)? If you assign a suitable IP address to an internal host by hand, can it reliably communicate with and through the Bering router? Others have already explained that pump has nothing to do with DHCP lease assignment *from* the LEAF router *to* the LAN -- it only affects getting a lease from your ISP. Since you report that side as working, I suggest you stop fiddling with that part of your settings. 2. 3-minute delays in starting syslogd -- this is, as I said before, a name-resolution problem. Jeff gave you the first bit of what you might need to fix. As to others ... what is the system's hostname and FQN? What do you have in /etc/hosts? What do you have in /etc/resolv.conf? Are you running dnscache? If yes to dnscache, does it work (can you ping Internet sites by *name*, for example)? At 01:12 PM 8/15/02 -0700, Craig wrote: >Hi all, >My Bering (CD or floppy) act very temperamental. Most of the time, they >don't want to assign addresses to any of the computers on my LAN. It >just refuses (and yet my Dachstein CD works flawlessly). However, it >seems to get its address from my ISP O.K., because I can ping from the >firewall just fine. I've tried modifying the isolinux.cfg file by >removing the reference to pump and replaced it with dhclient and dhcpd, >recreated the CD and that didn't help either. Also, it still takes about >2-3 minutes to get past the "Starting system log daemon: syslogd" >message. Jeff Newmiller suggested that I may not have a file in /etc >named nsswitch.conf that contains the single line- hosts: files >dns...but I do and it has that appropriate entry. O.K., I'm >stumped...and suggestions? Thank you. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
